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

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

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 ...

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), jointly operated by Nasa and the European Space Agency, caught the comet's ...

The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looks like it has grown a physics-defying second tail after reaching its closest point to Earth for more than 80,000 years, new photos reveal.

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

On Monday, just before 8 p.m., the much anticipated comet, which has reached its closest point to the Earth, put on a show for those who were watching in the Bay Area. C/2023 A3 was discovered ...

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

Such comets pose a risk to Earth and can ram into the planet without being detected ... Most of the actual parent comets were ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

The Halloween comet, C/2024 S1, disintegrated as it approached the sun. It's last fascinating moments were captured by the ...

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