Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the perihelion of its massive, 160,000-year orbit through our solar system. The comet was only first ...

Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images Comet Atlas C/2024 G3, discovered by the Atlas Survey System, has been slowly approaching the inner solar system and will reach perihelion, its closest point to ...

At its closest, the comet was over three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than the Earth, but is now on its way back out of the solar system towards the ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

A newly observed interstellar comet is the most pristine visitor from outer space ever seen in our Solar System, according to a pair of studies released Tuesday detailing its unique characteristics.

Chiron is peculiar for embodying some traits like an asteroid and others as a comet. William Gonzalez Sierra “All the small bodies in the solar system talk to us about how it was back in time ...

In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar system dark comets close to Earth. Finally, just last month in 2024 — and just in time for the new year— we doubled the population of known ...

New observations suggest that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which recently became visible to the naked eye, might be breaking ...