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A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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The telescope is orbiting the sun about 1 million miles from Earth. At those wavelengths, scientists will study the chemical composition of the dust and gas that comes off a comet's nucleus and ...

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

Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a ...

Astronomers report that Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS reached its closest point to the Sun on Sept. 27, putting on a spectacular ...

A NASA and European spacecraft watched as a newly discovered comet dubbed the "Halloween comet" met its demise after its close approach to the Sun.