Universe Today has explored the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, and solar physics, and what this…
Famous Halley’s Comet reaches a distant milestone this coming weekend.
If you notice a rise in meteors before dawn now through the weekend, you're not imagining things. It's the annual…
At the edge of the Solar System, there exists a large cloud of icy material and rock, which is where…
https://youtu.be/DIgBaY3t5xQ Halley’s Comet, also known as 1P/Halley, is the most well known comet in the Solar System. As a periodic…
Comets are renowned for their big beautiful tails that stretch across the sky. But what's in those things, anyway? And…
Up for a little abstract art, anyone? The latest images of the nucleus of Rosetta's comet makes it look like…
UPDATE: Watch a live webcast of the meteor shower, below, from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the night of…
Comets always seem to bring ‘em out of the wood work. There’s a scene from the 1998 movie Deep Impact…
An interesting and largely unknown tale of ancient astronomy recently came our way while reading author and astrophysicist Mario Livio’s…