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

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS will be visible with the naked eye from Earth until ...

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

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

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 ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

So, much of the damage was done before it got close to the sun, giving our nearest star a partial pass on being the full ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...