Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta mission ... Rosetta found lots of organic material and ...

"Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with 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 ...

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

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

was estimated to grow as bright as the naked-eye comet, which passed by Earth earlier in October. Unfortunately, the truth ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on ...

The ATLAS comet will be visible over the horizon toward the east and southeast ... NASA expects the ATLAS comet to reach its closest point to Earth on Oct. 24 as it approaches the sun on Oct ...

The comet reached its closest point to Earth — about 44 million miles away ... As the days go on, the comet is moving away from the sun and toward its path through space once again.