A mysterious black pebble found by an Egyptian geologist at the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield provides the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s...
According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...
NASA scientists have released the clearest view yet of the comet ISON, a newly discovered sungrazing comet that may light up the sky later this year.
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An object that killed the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, say researchers Prof Jason Moore and Prof...
According to a team of U.S. astronomers, comets have been colliding with one another every six seconds for millions of years in the Kuiper Belt-like disk...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have detected magnesium-rich material in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris.
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A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has tried to answer the question: did a massive comet explode over Canada...
