The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer: Lacey ...

NASA’s 2024 image collection highlights stunning views of Earth and detailed microgravity experiments aboard the ISS. Comet C ...

Peer into the fascinating work astronauts carried out on the International Space Station as it zips across the sky.

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

Dark comets are comets that are so small, fast and/or chemically rare that they are difficult to see from Earth ...

NASA researchers have discovered seven new dark comets, asteroids that act like comets, and they say there could be even more ...

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with water.

In addition to breaking its previous distance record, the PSP passed through the solar atmosphere at a velocity of about ...

it usually means it’s a comet, with volatile material outgassing from its surface, giving it a little thrust,” said Davide Farnocchia, coauthor from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.