A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Earth-grazers are meteors that streak close to the horizon and are known for their long, colorful tails, said NASA. The ...

Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

Many people were able to see comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as it passed by earth, either unaided or with binoculars ...

It's still one of the coolest things I ever saw. I was in the U.S. Air Force in the 90s, and November 1998 saw me deployed to ...

Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta mission ... Rosetta found lots of organic material and ...

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

The Leonid meteor showers are among the night skies' most spectacular. Here's where to look and how to best see the spectacle ...

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

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

When comets are viewed along their orbital planes as seen from Earth, it can sometimes appear as if they sprout an 'anti-tail,' a tail that faces towards the sun rather than away from it ...

According to NASA, the SOHO spacecraft captured the video below of comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS darting toward the Sun. It reached its closest ... comet a true "sungrazer" because it passed within 1% of ...