Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies—and will peak a week apart. The Southern Taurids will reach ...

A comet is defined as an icy body that is small in size and can develop a ‘tail’ of gas as it approaches the Sun from the ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

Both meteor showers— referred to by NASA as the “Halloween Fireballs”—are caused by debris from Comet Encke entering the ...

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 ...

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

From a readily visible comet to a regularly scheduled supermoon, October’s night sky was busier than usual, topped off with ...

For me there is little else that inspires such awe and wonder of the world -- and of life -- as celestial events.

Sid Lambert takes us back 20 years to the 2004/05 season, when Alan Pardew’s Hammers secured a rollercoaster return to the ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and ...