"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

This rare flare transformed the comet's gas cloud into a fleeting horseshoe shape. This earned the comet nicknames like the Devil Comet or the Millennium Falcon Comet. Other flares have since been ...

A mysterious bright light that shot across the skies above Norfolk has been identified as space junk. Early risers were ...

Thursday night could be one of the last nights you'll be able to see a super rare comet and its bright tail streaking across the Australian skies. It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever? It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the ...

Comets usually have a solid core or nuclear made of frozen water, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia, which are typically irregular in shape. When a comet approaches the Sun, the heat causes the ...