Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

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

ESA's Giotto mission to fly by Comet Halley in 1986 was the first mission to image a comet surface. The Rosetta mission was a ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

‘The welkin’ is an old term for the sky, or the vault of heaven, and writer Lucy Kirkwood has set her play against the backdrop of the arrival of Halley’s Comet which appears every 75 or so years. The ...

Halley’s comet is the most famous of this type. The other repository of comets is called the Oort cloud. This vast cloud is thousands of times more distant and much more spherical than the Keiper belt ...

"There's a giant ...

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 ...

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

From a readily visible comet to a regularly scheduled supermoon, October’s night sky was busier than usual, topped off with t ...

For me there is little else that inspires such awe and wonder of the world -- and of life -- as celestial events.