There are plenty of opportunities to catch a science show in the next few weeks. Over the next week, Comet A3, officially known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will be visible as it journeys across ...

Pressure builds within the nucleus until the shell cracks and the comet's icy guts, or cryomagma, spray into space. After an eruption, or outburst, the comet's coma — a fuzzy, reflective cloud ...

"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 ...

Occasionally, comets from the Oort Cloud are given a gravitational nudge toward the Sun. Some become bright and sport long tails before heading back into deep space again. The clue to these ...

The Taurids are split into different showers as they result from two separate streams of debris in space. The Southern Taurids are a result of a trail left by the comet 2P/Encke, and while the ...

NASA will provide live coverage of the relocation Sunday morning on NASA+. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to find a new docking port for a SpaceX Dragon in order to make ...

If you spotted comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in person, or seen photos online this October, you might have been inspired to learn more about these visitors from the outer Solar System. Get ready ...

So having yearslong seemingly unfixable leaks on the International Space Station (ISS) sounds like a nightmare scenario. It’s also a reality, one that a recent agency report calls “a top ...

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28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final moments were captured by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was ...

Photographer Raghuvamsh Chavali caught the comet hanging in the sky beside the uncanny glow of the Milky Way near Turner ...