NEW YORK (AP) — Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the ...

Adam Carlson caught a fine photo of October’s comet, the Tsuchinshan-Atlas, named for the Chinese and South African observatories that first spotted it.

Sun-grazing Comet C/2024 S2 Atlas was hoped to have ... have been a rare celestial phenomenon caused by how close the space rock was projected to fly past the sun. The sun was supposed to ...

7 liftoff. Meet Phaethon, a "rock comet" that blurs the definitions between asteroid and comet, and learn why it will be worth paying attention to this fascinating object in the coming years.

Magnificent Comet A3 has been visible from the skies over the last few nights - and Tuesday is your last best shot to spot it with your own eyes. The space rock comes from the Oort Cloud ...

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 ...

About 66 million years ago, a space rock more than 6 miles wide collided ... but a piece of shrapnel from an icy comet that had been pushed too close to the sun by Jupiter's gravity.

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest pass to Earth of 44 million miles last weekend – but it's not too late to catch a glimpse of the bright space rock. In fact, now that it no longer needs ...

From ancient times, humans have been fascinated by 'broom stars' and 'blazing scimitars' lighting up the sky and moving against the fixed background of stars. The Great Comets of our time still ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. It should ...