Year? A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light moves incredibly fast — about 186,000 miles (300,000 ...

Asteroids originate from the asteroid belt, planetary collisions, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, extinct comets, and space debris ...

There were high hopes for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS throughout the first part of 2024. It was a visitor from the Oort Cloud, ...

Before you panic about our impending doom, there's good news - a scientist from the University of Murcia has come up with an ...

A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is visible one last time on Dec. 23 via a virtual observatory before fading from view for thousands of years.

Applications utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) require large data sets for training to ensure they're accurate and can ...

Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

Anyone tempted to ascribe the nighttime sightings of aircraft to alien intelligence ought to be dissuaded by the vast scale ...

Professor Noville, a Spanish scientist, has discovered a formula using the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint celestial objects including hazardous asteroids ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

Comets, often described as the solar system's "dirty snowballs," are icy bodies made of rock, dust and ices. These relics of ...

Every million years, stars passing close to Earth may dislodge Oort Cloud objects. These interstellar encounters could bring ...