Quite a few comets pass through Earth's orbits every year, but the so-called devil comet earned a rather unique nickname.

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 ...

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

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

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

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final ...

Comet A3 -- a cosmic snowball of dust, gases and ice -- soars across the upper right of the frame. "The comet's nucleus is clearly visible, surrounded by a dusty coma and trailing an ...

As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month, here’s a chance to see the impact of Halley's Comet, the most famous clump of ice, rock and dust in the solar system. Last seen in ...

That marked a view of comet dust that the telescope had not seen before. “LASCO has seen many beautiful comet transits during its decades of operations, but seeing a side-on view of a comet’s ...

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 brightness increase and the dust around it get lit up ...

A comet is made from ice and dust. As it gets closer to the sun, it heats up slightly. That causes the ice covering its nucleus to become a gas, creating a coma. This gas — and dust — from the ...