This image shows comet Leonard streaming through the sky on the morning of December 7, 2021, taken by ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), part…
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An image of comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) taken November 13, 2021, from June Lake in California. Credit & Copyright: Dan E. Bartlett Now is the…
Sofia Bergman’s thesis gives scientists unique possibilities to study low-energy ions in space. låg energi. Credit: Institutet för rymdfysik Sofia Bergman, Swedish Institute of Space…
A graphic comparing the size of Comet 2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) to other solar system objects. Credit: © Will Gater A mega-comet – potentially the largest…
‘Centaurs’ near JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. It is a gas giant with a…
This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser In 2019, astronomers spotted something…
This pair (see below for other image) of Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and April 23, 2020,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 2020, providing the sharpest view to date of the breakup of the…
There is evidence that a comet struck Earth around 13,000 years ago. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years…
Using data from several instruments onboard Rosetta, CASTRA’s team has modeled the properties of cometary dust in the environment of Comet 67P. Image credit –…
April 22, 2021, Lyrid meteor shower radiants in CAMS data (yellow dots) from long-period comet Thatcher. Credit: P. Jenniskens / SETI Institute Researchers report that…
Conceptual image. By observing a comet in thermal infrared wavelengths, the same wavelengths used by noncontact thermometers, it is possible to determine not only its…
Researchers Directly Observed the C + S2 Channel in CS2 Photodissociation. Credit: DICP Studying the creation and evolution of sulfur-containing compounds in outer space is…
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most…
Trojan Asteroid 2019 LD2. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, B. Bolin IPAC/Caltech) Comet Comes in from the Cold and Finds an Off-Ramp on Its Sunward Journey…
Artist’s rendering of a comet headed towards Earth. New theory explains possible origin of the Armageddon-causing object. It forever changed history when it crashed into…
This series of images from the WISPR instrument on board Parker Solar Probe shows a small sungrazing comet, SOHO-4063, as it approached the Sun on…
The recently discovered comet C/2020 X3 (SOHO) seen in the LASCO C2 camera on the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams As Chile and Argentina…
Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and…
Artist’s impression of the system, with the star at the center, and the inner dust belt from which gas is produced and dispersed outwards to…