New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

People in the northern hemisphere will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars during the planetary parade. The next full moon will happen on Feb. 12. Known as the ...

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Unfortunately, this sight cannot be seen from Earth, as the comet is obscured by being too close to the Sun. However, the space probe SOHO captured this beautiful view. The white tail among the ...

This shrouds the nucleus in a vast cloud of gas and dust, which is then blown away from the Sun, creating the comet's tails. Comets that get particularly close to the Sun can become spectacular.

IN reference to a letter from Mr. Bedford, Ph.D., published in your last number, allow me to state— ...

Earth runs through the C/1861 G1 Thatcher comet every April to bring ... This meteor shower peaks early, just a day or two after it officially starts, and then tails off through mid-August.