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

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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

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

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

An “ancient” comet that won’t be seen again for tens of thousands of years will be visible Thursday night, after traveling from beyond the solar system to within its closest point to Earth ...

Comet C/2023 A3 making closest pass to Earth Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has an 80,000 year orbit and, it just so happens, that it is now approaching its closest pass to Earth. On Wednesday ...

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

The Leonid meteor shower, considered a major shower, will bring along fireballs and "Earth-grazer" meteors. How to watch.

As per estimates, such comets can cause up to six per cent of all impacts on Earth. Halley's Comet probably has the shortest ...

A comet seen down on Earth this weekend could make another appearance this week. On Saturday afternoon, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas was seen blazing through the sky, the second-brightest comet spotted ...

Astronomers say the comet was last visible from Earth about 80,000 years ago when Neanderthals roamed the planet. Scientists in China and South Africa spotted it within about a month of each other ...