It's not for nothing that a gigantic comet has come to be known as the "devil comet." As the celestial body makes its slow journey around the sun, amateur astronomers have noticed that the gas and ...

One such flare-up in July, when the comet suddenly became 100 times brighter, caused its coma to take the shape of a devil’s ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Astrophoto of periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky. Green nucleus and tail of ion, dust ... [+] and vapor illuminated ...

Dan Bartlett has taken hundreds of photos of comets ... Even in the darkness of totality, I wasn't able to spot the "Devil comet" with my naked eye or my camera. If I'd had a telescope or ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks showing a horned/horseshoe shape during an outburst last summer. The headlines are wild and the hype is big, but is there any truth to stories about a “Devil Comet ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

It's clearly visible as a front-facing 'spike' coming out of the comet's nucleus in the photographs. The other image of the comet below was taken from a beautiful field at the Dark Sky Alqueva ...

While also known as the devil comet, astronomers drew inspiration from the popular TV show "Game of Thrones," naming it the 'Mother of Dragons' due to its association with the "kappa-Draconids ...

It's clearly visible as a front-facing 'spike' coming out of the comet's nucleus in the photographs. The other image of the comet below was taken from a beautiful field at the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve ...

This earned the comet nicknames like the Devil Comet or the Millennium Falcon Comet. Other flares have since been spotted, and it's possible they could happen again as 12P/Pons-Brook heads toward ...