South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports that China’s Chang’e-7 mission next year will include a “smart robotic flying detector” to explore the lunar south pole.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...

An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a stunning photograph of the super-bright "New Year comet" seemingly ... from the outer solar system. Harry is a U.K.-based ...

A recently discovered comet is making a bright debut on Earth this month, and with some effort, skygazers might be able to see Comet ATLAS. Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS was discovered in April 2024 using the ...

According to Dr Tucker, Sun-skirters "do one occasional trip into the solar system ... jetting gas into space — is blowing all that matter away from it. As a result, the comet's tail is ...

it contains 99% of the Solar System’s total mass. This immense mass creates the gravitational pull that has held planets, asteroids, and comets in orbit for 4.6 billion years. An artist’s concept ...

as they only pass through the inner solar system briefly before disappearing back into the depths of space. It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.

At its closest, the comet was over three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than the Earth, but is now on its way back out of the solar system towards the ...