NASA originally reported that it would return in approximately 80,000 years, but new data shows that it may pass ... coming ...

As the Comets’ new HC, Schmalen has taken on the mother of all recruiting ... “We have a good freshman class coming up,” said ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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

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

Just when we thought we were starting to understand the mysterious object 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, it has confounded us ...

“The themes around all of the talent and history of baseball — Mickey Mantle, Johnny Bench, Warren Spahn — those things kept coming up (in the process ... it will light up or something similar. A new ...

It completely vaporized after coming within 1% of the distance between Earth and ... He is also the lead for NASA’s Sungrazer Project, which discovers new comets. To date, the project has found over 4 ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS ... it would disintegrate in the Sun's intense radiation. Tweet (opens in a new tab) Unfortunately for hopeful skygazers, C/2024 S1 did the latter. In an X (formerly ...

A comet that was hoped to be visible to the naked eye over the coming days has been gobbled up by the sun. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), passed its closest point to Earth on October 24 ...

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 ...