At least eight comets will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere in 2025. Here's where and when to look and which ones you ...

The latest outbursts, which are the largest in more than three years, add to the growing confusion about when and why this explosive oddball blows its top. The comet, known as 29P/Schwassmann ...

The comet is shining brightest just as the ... So it’s a bit hard for us to wax poetic about it even if it’s the biggest supermoon of 2024,” he said in an email. "Over the next few evenings ...

This comet made its closest approach to Earth—44 million miles away—on October 12, which was the best day for viewing.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks showing a horned/horseshoe shape during an outburst last summer. The headlines are wild and the hype is big, but is there any truth to stories about a “Devil Comet ...

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 ...

It signals the beginning of Chinese Lunar New Year and also comes on the same weekend when Saturn and Venus can easily be seen in a rare conjunction and a so-called “green comet” is visible in ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

The Kreutz sungrazers likely all came from a big comet that broke apart years ago, and they all tend to be on the smaller side. That’s why during their close approach to the Sun, the sungrazers ...