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 ...

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

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

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The Leonid meteor shower streaks across the night sky in November. Here's what to know, including when is the best time to ...

A "very bright" meteor shower will bring a spectacular light display to UK skies over the next two nights as it reaches ...

Researchers say the white lines in the sky created by planes can double the amount of warming caused by aviation’s carbon emissions.

Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower has been lighting up the skies recently. Advert The showers are caused by debris like ice ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

SpaceX has announced the next test flight for its Starship rocket, and it's sooner than you probably expected. The sixth ...