The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - ...

Astronomy and shooting seem to have little in common. But two space missions since 2004 resemble skeet shooting, albeit on a ...

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

For years, astronomers and astrochemists have puzzled over two big mysteries in space. First, they noticed that dense clouds ...

According to their new study, sulfur can bind with ammonium under icy cosmic conditions and form a salt that sticks to dust ...

An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ...

Let’s explore the history of comets, from Halley’s to the more recent Neowise and Leonard, and even the renowned comet 67P, which was outfitted with the Philae spacecraft. These frozen things have ...

January 2025 offers a variety of captivating celestial events. Key highlights include the Venus and Moon conjunction, Quadrantid meteor shower peak, a Saturn-Moon occultation, Earth at perihelion ...

A huge achievement was the Rosetta spacecraft detecting glycine, the basic building block of proteins, on comet 67P in 2015, which clearly describes space with respect to chemical ingredients for life ...

After an extraordinary year of watching full moons, eclipses, meteors and northern lights, a comet will be viewable right off the bat in 2025. It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com ...

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.