In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

The escaping material can cause significant changes in a comet's orbit, acting like natural rocket engines, with the exact changes depending on the direction, speed, and amount of the escaping gas ...

“Did you see the comet?” the swim coach quizzed ... unscheduled disassembly” during its ascent. Translation: The rocket blew up. And it showered flaming debris over South Florida and ...

A mysterious object that looked vaguely like a comet or a meteor was seen soaring ... according to the company’s website. “This was a rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base and not ...

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[Photo/Xinhua] Chinese scientists have attributed the sudden movement of a boulder on the surface of a comet to a phenomenon known as the "rocket effect," which resulted from the asymmetric ...

The Federal Aviation Administration did, too. The FAA halted flights, including at Miami International Airport and Fort ...