BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

Sky at Night Magazine added, "Comet A3 will actually look like either a short section of an airplane contrail in the sky, ...

Looked like faint smudge and you would not know it was there unless you were trying to see it," the user posted. Wes Ryle, astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory, said the comet will only be ...

The comet visits our solar system about every 80,000 years, meaning that it has not been seen from Earth since the Neanderthals were around. A3’s bright look and clear visibility in the sky led ...

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

While it’s visible, it will gradually make its way across the sky horizontally. The comet won’t look like it’s moving in real time as you watch it, meaning it won’t appear to be zipping ...

Some of humanity’s earliest recorded history associates the arrival of comets in the night sky with events like earthquakes, floods, and epidemics ... get off the couch and venture out in the evening, ...

Your peripheral vision is more sensitive to faint objects, so you may spot the comet in the corner of your eye. You're looking for a smudge, slightly bigger than a star. It won't twinkle like the ...

It won't twinkle like the stars do, and it will look a bit blurrier, with less defined borders. It may appear elongated because of the comet's tail, which is dust and gas flowing off its icy body.