Scientists studying Apollo lunar mission samples uncovered evidence of a dual heritage for lunar water, tracing back to Earth ...

A cometary globule, known as “God’s Hand,” has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope. Credit: Images and videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/N. Bartmann Image ...

Update as of February 2025 When Comet G3 reached perihelion, comet watchers observed a sharp increase in brightness as the ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further ...

Asteroids, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, were also proposed as potential progenitors of Earth’s ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

Our solar system has the Kuiper Belt, but we're not the only ones wearing a snazzy ring of ice shards and space rocks. Countless other star systems boast belts of their own, which astronomers believe ...

The Dark Tower, a cometary globule in Scorpius, is no comet at all—it’s a dense cloud of gas and dust where stars are born. Intense radiation from young stars nearby has sculpted its eerie shape, ...

Anaïs Bardyn, a DTM Postdoctoral Fellow, will present a lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 28, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly ...