If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Gretchen Beyer takes a look at the day in sports, including the Utica Comets returning to the ice, looking to bounce back after a loss to the Rochester Americans on Wednesday.

During its perihelion on 15 January, the comet experienced intense solar radiation, which may have caused thermal stress. While the comet initially seemed unaffected by the encounter, recent photos ...

C/2024 G3 was thought to originate in the Oort cloud, an enormous cloud of rock and ice surrounding our solar system, with the comet taking about 160,000 years to orbit the sun. "This relatively ...

While most models of solar system formation predict perfectly circular and coplanar orbits for the planets, reality presents a slightly different picture. Successful Simulations: Approximately 1% ...

Even though Comet ATLAS was only discovered over a year ago, its short life wasn’t in vain. Astronomers study Sun-grazing comets because they are essentially leftovers from the solar system's ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

some of which fly through the inner solar system as comets, which languishes far from the sun at distances between 30 and 55 astronomical units (AU; one AU is 149.6 million kilometers/93 million ...

That simple observation had larger implications for categorizing these cryptic wanderers. New data suggest that some dark comets hang out in the outer solar system and others live closer in. The ones ...