Astronomers and sky watchers have their fingers crossed that an approaching comet could put on a nighttime show on Earth next month, but it’s already strutting its stuff for those in space.

Matthew Dominick continues to wow us with impressive astrophotography from aboard the International Space Station.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS originated from the Oort Cloud, a bubble of ice and dust that surrounds our solar system. It was ...

Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...

The comet, which has been generating excitement among astronomers and skywatchers, is currently visible in Earth's skies as ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick got a front row seat to Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from the cupola on the International Space ...

The final hurdle for Tsuchinshan-ATLAS to surmount will come on the afternoon of Sept. 27, when it arrives at perihelion — the closest point in its orbit to the sun.

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

Halley’s Comet appears only once every 75 years, sparking excitement among both casual observers and astronomers. Learn what ...

Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...

Sung through in the style of an opera, the musical feels driven by a radiant, pulsing heartbeat that thrums through the ...

Comets are often described as "dirty snowballs ... which can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a boulder, travels through space and crosses paths with Earth, it enters the atmosphere at ...