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

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

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

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

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

You don’t need a telescope or binoculars to see the Leonids. To ensure good viewing conditions, you should go to the darkest ...

So, it was a rare treat indeed in October 2024 when Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was at its peak visibility. Even then, it was difficult to see with the naked eye, especially in light- ...

Most long-period comets, or LPCs, which take over 200 years to complete one orbit around the Sun, remain undiscovered until ...

The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers grace the skies each year for more than two months and both branches will peak at different times in November. They aren't known for creating displays ...

A recently discovered comet that scientists and amateur astronomers hoped would be visible on Halloween was in an orbit a … ...

In 2022, a Russian rocket launched an Iranian Earth observation satellite called Khayyam which was built in Russia on ...

About half all comets are from the region known as the Keiper belt. This is a disk aligned with the solar system (but not quite as flat) that lies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The most famous Keiper ...