Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...

One simulation compared two comets—one with a 250-year orbit and one with a 4,000-year orbit. In both cases, the comets spent most of their time far beyond the big planets.

Astronomers have spotted unusual molecular activity in the largest Oort Cloud comet, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 ...

In April 2020 a shower in the constellation Serpens was traced back to the orbit of an unknown long-period comet. In April 2019, CAMS New Zealand station detected a brief outburst of 5 meteors from ...

As of Friday morning, the Tianwen-2 probe had been operating smoothly in orbit for over eight days, reaching a distance of more than 3 million kilometers from Earth, according to the China ...

As Pluto is the most distant of the nine planets, its 248-year orbit around the Sun is lengthy compared with human timescales. It is also the most eccentric: Pluto's heliocentric distance varies ...

The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS), a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth, first discovered the asteroid 2003 AY2 on January 2, 2003.

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission included the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. Between 2014 and 2016, the spacecraft circled comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ...

Learn more about the planets, asteroids, and comets in our solar system. 3:55. Solar System 101. ... Known as natural satellites, they orbit planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and other debris.

Comet C/2014 UN271, ... A diagram compariting comet nucleus size. ... The Earth could be soon flung out of orbit or into the sun - all thanks to a passing star.

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4.