Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days before and after.

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, discovered in 2023, is expected to be visible for the next few weeks after making its closest approach last Saturday. It is the brightest comet since Neowise in 2020 ...

Comet NEOWISE made its closest approach to our star on July 3 ... Since they retain the building blocks of planets in their frozen ice, they can provide scientists with important information ...

Many of us had an opportunity to gaze into the night sky recently and behold Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). But have ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

This image provided by NASA shows Comet Atlas, nicknamed the Halloween comet, approaching its closest to the sun, October 2024, as seen in this real-time image from NASAs orbiting Solar and ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the comet some call the ‘comet of the century’, was captured soaring across the sky above Santa Rosa by KTVU photographer Jaden Schaul.

Comet C/2023 A3 making closest pass to Earth Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has an 80,000 year orbit and, it just so happens, that it is now approaching its closest pass to Earth. On Wednesday, the comet ...