In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

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

They are born towards the outer edges of the solar system and are known as long-period comets (LPCs). Such comets pose a risk ...

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

and those of us on Earth will be visited soon by a pair of massive space rocks traveling roughly 30 miles per second.

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 ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...