Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there ...

“It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit,” he wrote on Instagram. “Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.” Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner imaged the comet a few days prior. There have ...

To find a planet on an orbit similar to our own, Kepler would have to monitor the star for several years to confirm that the dips repeated. Scaled up, that meant that Kepler needed to watch one ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

It was also Europe’s year with Rosetta, the European Space Agency’s ‘comet chaser’, reaching Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, entering orbit and ... was lost. The Kepler telescope has allowed ...

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... Dhara explains that comets are relatively small “objects that orbit around our sun, and they have very long orbits which means ...