Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! — Astrophotographer captures Comet C/2023 E1 Atlas in rare encounter with Flying Bat and Squid ...

The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November, 2014, after a decade spent travelling nearly 4 billion miles through space. Having left Earth in 2004 ...

Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A comet nicknamed ...

Back on Oct. 10, Space.com published an article indicating that this comet — which belongs to the Kreutz family of sungrazing comets — was in the process of disintegration and would likely not ...

ESA and NASA's SOHO spacecraft capture a video of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) glowing as it raced through space. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

We got a rare glimpse of this process in 2020, when Comet C/2019 Y4 shattered to smithereens when it drew near the Sun under the watchful eye of the Hubble Space Telescope. A notice posted to ...