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

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

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

One of the main questions the new study's researchers have concerns how to tell apart the chemical species created in the ...

The best time to view the Taurid meteor shower is around midnight when the shower's radiant (the spot in the sky from which ...

The comet is massive in size and length. Its head currently measures a whopping two miles in diameter. The tail, which is largely comprised of tiny pieces of ice and dust, is believed to be as ...

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

The last frozen ice ball that gave us a big show was Hale-Bopp, a comet that was visible for nearly 18 months around its closest approach to Earth in 1997. Officially designated C/2020 F3 ...

Hanging above was a visitor from the Oort cloud, a cluster of icy space debris far beyond our solar system. Only about 2 ...

The C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) was only discovered in January last year but astronomers said it would last have been ...

They're absolutely beautiful." The comet's full name is C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). Unlike asteroids, which are entirely ...