Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

To this end, they are currently preparing a model study of comet 67P–a Jupiter-family comet that made history as the first comet to be orbited and landed on by a spacecraft from Earth.

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 ...

Tales of the Space Age is one of several notable Lego deals in Best Buy's Black Friday sale. Sci-fi fans can also save big on two Star Wars Lego sets: The Clone Commander Cody Hel ...

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

As the comet flew through the solar system, Comet A3 went almost directly between the Sun and the spacecraft. That meant that it could be seen with the telescope, which was able to watch its ...

Rosetta, the first comet orbiter, shares final moments before crashing The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday after two years of orbit around Comet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...