Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

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

It also was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in South Africa. The comet reached its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 12 — but if you missed it then ...

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

A comet seen down on Earth this weekend could make another appearance ... Observatory in China and by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in South Africa ...

In that stream, Rosetta found lots of organic material and other data that revealed that a few noble gases in Earth's ...

C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will reach its closest distance to Earth on October ... Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in South Africa, hence the comet's namesake, according ...

Scientists have pinpointed the age of the moon's largest impact basin, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, to over 4.32 ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

During its closest pass of Earth on 23 October ... The comet was discovered only in late September by the Asteroid ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...