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

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 ...

The human family was treated to comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) during October, a visitor from the outer reaches of the ...

The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” could fragment, lose its head and disintegrate and as it passes ...

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 ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Friday, Nov. 1, with sky charts, ...

The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was visible to the naked ... but new data shows that it may pass out of our solar ...

A majority of comets fly through the solar system invisible to humans, usually too small and dim to be seen with the naked eye. The last frozen ice ball that gave us a big show was Hale-Bopp ...

ATLAS, discovered in 2023, has made its closest approach to the Sun.According to reports, the long-period comet last visited ...