A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying ...

A volcanic comet moving around in the inner solar system has suddenly become extremely violent, blasting out four times in 48 ...

As pressure builds, the comet’s shell cracks, releasing an icy mixture, or cryomagma, into space. This process makes the ...

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The comet's solid nucleus, the source of the whole show, is a dirty space iceberg ... It fell in toward the sun from the cold and dark outer solar system, originating in a region referred to ...

Alfred University held a ceremony Thursday to announce the opening its Space Materials Institute, established in the Inamori ...

But scientists believe comets hurtling through space may hold that wisdom. Like an asteroid, a comet orbits the sun. The latter is a ball of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system.

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

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

Venice, or Outer Space, or even highly fictionalized Long Island and Oklahoma. Fly with us through this week's new movies.