When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 ...

The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular as Saturn’s (whose are?) but they are there. However, one of them may not ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two camps depending on their ...

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

NASA has announced the discovery of seven astronomical objects that come in two flavors; they look like asteroids but ...

NASA researchers have discovered seven new dark comets, asteroids that act like comets, and they say there could be even more ...

Dark comets are a newly defined type of near-Earth object that resemble asteroids but behave like comets, exhibiting dynamic ...

This new data reveals that not even all dark comets are the same: there are at least two different kinds. And, in turn, the ...

The study also reveals that these mysterious objects fall into two distinct groups based on their orbit and size. With this ...

A new category of space rock called “dark comets” are proving more common than previously thought, with 14 asteroid-comet ...