A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

Earth objects, astronomers recently discovered a comet visiting from interstellar space. This is only the third interstellar ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...

Dean Regas chats with astronomer David Levy, unpacking the discovery of the famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Listen in and find out how you can start chasing comets yourself.

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

Particles of dust about the size and texture of instant coffee granules smash into the air above our heads – at 210,000 km per hour – and burn up as shooting stars.

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, creating an explosion thousands of times more potent than Earth's nuclear arsenal.

Nevertheless, Jupiter’s strong-arm magnetosphere creates spectacular auroras when the electrons it directs invariably smash into other atoms in the atmosphere to release bursts of light.

These planets are surrounded by moons, and this chaotic reshuffling would have caused countless comets and irregular moonlets to smash into Titan and other early planetary bodies.

Space Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet? The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets ...