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

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

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

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

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

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

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

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

Every year from September to November, the Earth passes through a broad stream of debris left by comets. When the dust from ...

The passage of Comet C/2023 A3 presented an opportunity to gain insights into the near-Sun environment and solar space weather.

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.

ATLAS, discovered in 2023, has made its closest approach to the Sun.According to reports, the long-period comet last visited ...