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

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

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

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

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), jointly operated by Nasa and the European Space Agency, caught the comet's demise through their telescopes. During its closest pass of Earth on 23 ...

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

ESA/NASA’s Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft spied comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS (entering from bottom right) as it darted toward the Sun. The comet reached its perihelion, or closest approach of the Sun ...

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

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

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