Could comet-dwelling trees provide safe, habitable 'bubbles' of life that travel through the cosmos ?
One of the most unusual comets in the solar system is due to make its closest approach of the Earth today.
Astronomers have revealed that comet 2I/Borisov is remarkably similar to comets from our own solar system.
A comet bombardment that occurred on Mars 3.9 billion years ago may have created habitable conditions.
An astronomical anomaly thought by some to be an 'alien megastructure' has continued to defy explanation.
The famous 'Wow!' signal picked up in 1977 could turn out to have a rather mundane explanation.
Our planet may be at higher risk from a large comet impact than from a conventional rocky asteroid.
Jupiter's icy moon may have had deliveries of pre-life ingredients thanks to penetrating comet impacts.
Scientists have demonstrated that a comet impact can kick-start the formation of complex molecules.
Rosetta has discovered that the water on comet 67P is different to the water that we have here on Earth.
Researchers had theorized that a gas giant in the Oort Cloud may have been affecting the orbit of comets.
Wobbles in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter preserve a record of past impacts.
A massive object four times the size of Jupiter could be lurking in the outer solar system.
A brown dwarf star could be circling the sun and throwing extinction sized comets in our direction.
Earth's oceans may not have been formed as the result of vapors emitted during early volcanism but may have instead been...
A barrage of comets some 3.85 billion years ago could have accounted for the arrival of the Earth's oceans a new study h...
During the first million years of their formation comets would have contained large amounts of liquid water it has been ...
A team at Tel Aviv University has found that comets could have brought the missing ingredients required for life in Eart...
Scientists have warned that 'dark comets' could pose a threat to the Earth and that we won't be able to detect them. A c...