"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

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

For this reason, astronomers regularly look for orbital changes each time comets return near the Sun and update those orbits as needed, leading to reference catalogs listing multiple orbits for ...

Halley’s comet orbits the Sun every 75–79 years and will next visit the inner solar system in 2061. It’s almost completed its journey away from the Sun and will soon turn back towards it.

China's major short-video platform Douyin removed a total of 585 micro-dramas in January due to their violations of ...

In 1705, English astronomer Edmond Halley used Isaac Newton’s theories of gravitation and planetary motions to compute the orbits of several comets. Halley found the similarities in the orbits ...

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 ...

When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or ...

Asteroids and comets move in paths which are more oval ... A year on Uranus is 42,718 Uranus days long! Between the orbits of the terrestrial planets and the gas giants, there are millions of ...