In 2021, Comet 67P made its closest approach to Earth in 200 years. The space rock may be speeding away from our planet ...

If you are a dedicated sky watcher, you are about to be rewarded with the final meteor shower of 2024: the Geminids are here, ...

Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies ...

The Observatory is home to the largest optical telescope in the state of New York, a computerized f/4 Newtonian reflector ...

On a dark night, at the peak of the shower at around 2 a.m. (for all time zones), "you can often catch 50 or more meteors per hour," EarthSky.org stated. "During an optimum night for the Geminids, ...

The Geminids — the year's best, last and least talked about multicolored meteor shower — has started and could see up to 150 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A comet nicknamed the “Halloween comet” disintegrated on Monday during its closest approach of the sun, and the European Space Agency and ... frozen gases and rock, came closer to its ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

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 ...