Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

From revealing the comet's rubber-ducky shape and unique auroras up close to discovering Earth-like gases streaming from the ...

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

Once they are close enough to the sun to be heated, the volatile materials evaporate, and the released clouds that are lit up by the sun are what we recognize as comets. About half ... will be edge-on ...

Some of these comets that pass close to the Earth are classified as “potentially hazardous”. LPCs may cause up to 6 per cent ...

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

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

Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke apart 20,000 years ago, are happening at ...

A recently discovered comet that scientists and amateur astronomers hoped would be visible on Halloween was in an orbit a … ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world! Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Friday, Nov. 1, with sky charts, ...

Trick-or-treaters may get a “spooky” surprise in the skies Halloween night in the form of the Taurid meteor shower.