"Hale-Bopp has been a favorite of comet studies in part because it was one of the brightest comets seen." Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules ...

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 ...

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 ...

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was visible to the naked eye earlier in October as the comet, which is sort of an icy space snowball, flew past the sun and Earth. Fresh telescope footage from the U ...

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 ...

It was supposed to use harpoons to secure itself on to the comet surface, but the harpoons never fired. When it touched down, it immediately bounced back up into space. The first bounce brought ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

Its coma is about 130,000 miles (209,000 kilometers) in diameter, and its tail extends around 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) into space. Check my feed for a daily “comet tracker ...

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 ...

Now, thanks to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, we know for sure how and when comet ATLAS met its demise.

Comet C/2023 A3 - Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is seen in ... and its tail extends around 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) into space. It has an orbital period of 80,000 years.