Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

The Leonid meteor shower, considered a major shower, will bring along fireballs and "Earth-grazer" meteors. How to watch.

The Leonids are produced when Earth passes through the debris left behind by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle during its highly ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks on November 17, 2024, with possible additional activity on November 14 and 19-20; moderate ...

While Leonid meteor storms, which occur when Earth passes through a dense debris field from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, have ...

British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 prize and ...

Stargazers across Dorset could be treated to ‘one of the UK’s most reliable meteor showers. Although the Leonids are active from November 6-30, the peak is expected to occur on the evening of November ...

A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...