Astronomers finally managed to observe a comet nearing the end of its life. And they found that it's covered in…
Using data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of Russian scientists have concluded that a star will make a close…
Whenever I wipe the dust off my coffee table or catch a glimpse of dust motes floating in sunlight, my…
By comparing our local Comet Hale-Bopp to the interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov, a team of astronomers have concluded that the interloper…
Just when do comets get their signature coma? Conventional wisdom says it only happens when they get close enough to…
Jupiter is notorious for capturing objects that venture too close to the gas giant and its enormous pull of gravity.…
About 66 million years ago a massive chunk of rock slammed into Earth in what is the modern-day Yucatan Peninsula.…
Rome was the world's first mega-empire. At its height it stretched from Western Europe to the Middle East, and over…
Did comets deliver the elements essential for life on Earth? It's looking more and more like they could have. At…
In many ways, stars are the engines of creation. Their energy drives a whole host of processes necessary for life.…