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

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its closest approach to the Sun on Monday. The affectionately nicknamed ...

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days ...

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

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

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 ...

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

This meteor shower is caused by a comet, but not the one we're seeing in the early evening sky. It's caused by the dust left in space from Halley's Comet. That comet will be visible in our skies ...

Last year, another comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, drew attention with similar explosions that gave it a horned shape, earning it the ...

celebrated as the “Comet of the Century” by skywatchers, recently dazzled observers with a brilliant and extensive dust trail ...

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 ...