The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, may not have survived its recent trip past the sun and is fading fast.

Halley's Comet holds a special place of significance and popularity among both the general public and the astronomy community ...

With up to 60 meteors per hour under perfect conditions during the peak night, the Eta Aquariids are considered a strong ...

A celestial spectacle from Halley's Comet will illuminate the night sky this week. Here's how to watch and when to look up.

Meteors from the Eta Aquariids, known for their speed and created from space debris originating from Halley's comet, will ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

ESA made history by orbiting and landing on a comet for the first time. What Rosetta and Philae discovered on 67P changed our ...

On Sunday, May 4, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to leave glowing streaks in Earth’s atmosphere, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. These streaks from faster meteors, according to NASA, ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling apart. Its blistering host star is so close, the radiation is effectively ...