The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured comet Comet 96P/Machholz latest flyby of the Sun. See a time-lapse of the footage here. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's St ...

The Planetary Society website explained that the comet got its name "from how it was discovered. The '2024 G3' comes from it ...

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

S1 (ATLAS) has met its demise after traveling too close the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the its fateful dive. Credit: Space.com | ESA/NASA SOHO | edited ...

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

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The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

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

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, ...

Published this month in Science Advances, a paper by NASA-led researchers examines a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission visited in 2014.

The first dark comet — a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet — was reported less than two years ago.

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa.