Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Something to 👀. New sungrazing comet in ESA/NASA SOHO/LASCO C3, found last night by citizen scientist Zesheng Yang. It ...

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

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final ...

They found that the orbits of many comets don't produce showers useful for prediction, but in 17 cases, the showers could be used to identify comets months or years before they would typically be ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) was hoped to be visible to the naked eye in the next few days, but unfortunately disintegrated as it skimmed past the sun.

While many backyard astronomers were waking up early to catch a glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its stunning anti-tail, another comet was making its way through our solar system.

After their first victory of the season the previous night, the Utica Comets looked to ride a wave of momentum heading into ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows. Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram into ...

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