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

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

Last week's comet passed about halfway between Earth and the sun, more than 40 million miles away from the sun's searing heat. This new comet is about to make a much closer pass, just over 700,000 ...

At the moment, most observers have placed the comet at a magnitude of just +10, which is still around 40 times dimmer than the faintest stars you can see without a telescope or binoculars.

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

1984's Night of the Comet follows Regina "Reggie" Belmont, a bored teen working at a movie theater whose main concerns in life are hanging out with her projectionist boyfriend Larry and getting ...