Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

On Monday (Oct. 14), Jäger captured another even clearer shot of the comet and its additional appendage (see above) and sent it to Live Science. Related: See Mercury's giant, comet-like tail in ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), nicknamed the 'Headless Comet,' might be seen on Halloween because only a faint display of its tail ...

Only spotted on Sept. 27 by astronomers at the ATLAS survey in Hawaii, C/2024 S1 (Atlas) is a large “Kreutz sungrazer,” a fragment of a giant comet that broke apart over a thousand years ago.

Related: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that's home to ...

In the days following its sweep around the sun, Ikeya-Seki was a spectacular sight in the late October and early November morning skies. An incredibly brilliant, twisted tail stretched up from the ...

"The comet hails from the Oort Cloud, which scientists think is a giant spherical shell surrounding our solar system. It is like a big, thick-walled bubble made of icy pieces of space debris the ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this weekend, with sky charts, before it disappears.

UPDATE - Monday, October 28, 2024 - Comet c/2024 s1 ATLAS was seen on SOHO's LASCO C3 coronagraph imagery diving towards the ...

Nov. 1-9 – Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS slowly slides upward from the bell-shaped constellation Ophiuchus into Aquila the Eagle ...

Apparently, they are all fragments of a single giant comet that broke apart in the distant past. And it's quite probable that these fragments have themselves broken up repeatedly as they've ...