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

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

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

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of ...

On 28 October, the comet was vaporised as it headed towards perihelion - the closest point to the sun in its orbit. The Solar ...

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 ...

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

So, much of the damage was done before it got close to the sun, giving our nearest star a partial pass on being the full ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

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

The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was visible to the naked ... A supermoon is when the fullest phase of the moon ...

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