The comet should remain viewable through telescopes until September as it approaches the Sun, then emerge again in December on its outbound leg.

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.

The comet was first reported on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey ...

The comet passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, and had been named the "Halloween comet" given the possibility that it would be visible in the night sky near the end of October.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will pass near ... The flyby is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the "green comet," which poses no risk to the planet, before it continues on its far-flung orbit around the ...

When you hear “naked-eye” comet, a few others come to mind, including Comet Hale-Bopp’s flyby in 1997 and Halley’s Comet, which astronomers have documented for 2,000 years.

As the comet approached its perihelion—the closest point in its orbit to the Sun—at around 7:30 a.m. ET on Monday, however, it was completely vaporized by the sun's intense heat and radiation.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the devil comet, recently made its closest approach to Earth for more than 70 years. During this close encounter, astrophotographers spotted a seemingly ...

A new paper suggests that comet C/2023 A3, ... This is what happened to comet ISON, which was violently ripped apart during a solar flyby in 2014, according to the European Space Agency.

The last time Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passed by Earth, our human cousins the Neanderthals still roamed the Earth. Discovered in March 2022 by US-based astronomers, the comet, which sports an emerald ...

A newly discovered comet will be visible at times as it flies by Earth next week. But spotting it will take some know-how. Japanese space photographer Hideo Nishimura first observed Comet ...

In a rare astronomical event, astronomers have confirmed the passage of an interstellar object through our solar system.