Comets are leftovers, scraps of material that didn't make it to planethood in the events creating our solar system. Once, many astronomers believe, the solar system was full of comet nuclei ...

In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered two classes of these elusive dark comets The solar system is teeming with small bodies such as comets and asteroids.

In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered two classes of these elusive dark comets The solar system is teaming with small bodies such as comets and asteroids.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the perihelion of its massive, 160,000-year orbit through our solar system. The comet was only first ...

Need a new idea to keep kids entertained? Try stargazing. Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning ...

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...

SIMFEROPOL, November 14. /TASS/. A Crimean amateur astronomer from the hamlet of Nauchny, Gennady Borisov, has discovered a new Solar System comet. It was the ninth stellar object that he has ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like comets, albeit without the “tail” comets ...

TASS/. Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer from Crimea, has discovered a new Solar System comet. According to Borisov himself, he has now become the second in the world among amateur ...

That’s all seven of the other planets in the solar system! As a bonus, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will be close to one of them. To even stand a chance of seeing anything of interest during this ...