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A once-in-80,000-year sight will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend before heading into the vast abyss of outer ...

The Comet Tsuchinshan ... and saw the dust trail edge-on,” creating a rare alignment that allowed for a detailed, ...

This is not unusual behavior for a comet, but it can be a sign of nucleus fragmentation – where the main body, or nucleus, of a comet starts to break apart. This probably happens because of what they ...

Comets hail from the very cold outer reaches ... when Comet C/2019 Y4 shattered to smithereens when it drew near the Sun under the watchful eye of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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 ...

The Orionid meteor shower, which originates from Halley's Comet, is expected light up the night sky starting this weekend.

Now, thanks to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly operated by NASA and the European Space ... from the outer solar system. After that approach, the comet began ...

While many backyard astronomers were waking up early to catch a glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ... can complete their orbit and return to outer space. The Kreutz family specifically all ...

Talk about a Halloween treat. A recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween, astronomers say. Comet C/2024 S1, first found at the end of ...

A once-in-80,000-year sight will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend before heading into the vast abyss of outer space. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest approach to the ...