SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a “once in a lifetime comet” is in ...

Comets are among the most exciting celestial objects to watch. These visitors from the outer reaches of the solar system are ...

The ATLAS comet is likely a fragment of the Great Comet of 1106—a comet recorded by astronomers in Asia nearly 918 years ago—and is likely from the Oort Cloud, a “giant spherical shell” that NASA ...

Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recommends a pair of binoculars for enhanced viewing of the comet.

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

The first critical date is Saturday, October 26. This is when the comet will enter the view of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. SOHO orbits the Earth and sun and is about ...

Check my feed every day this week and next for a daily “comet tracker” with sky-charts and tips for viewing Comet A3. Comet A3 will first reach its closest to the sun, then its closest to Earth.

The reliable Leonid meteor shower peaks on Sunday night, offering a chance to see up to dozens of meteors per hour shooting ...

If you want to see the comet and the weather is clear, make sure you get a view of the western sky that is totally unobstructed by trees or buildings. Comet C will be very low on the horizon initially ...

In fact, now that it no longer needs to compete with a supermoon, this weekend could be prime-time for viewing! Here's everything you need to know about the Atlas comet, including where it came ...

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 ...

First it was the aurora, and now it’s a comet passing near the sun. While the viewing may have been best around sunset on Saturday, there is still a small window to view Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas ...