The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024. Full Story: <a href=" Credit: NASA's ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time should spot many new "dark comets" after coming online in ...

A Northern Arizona University Ph.D. student working at Lowell Observatory helped lead a study using meteor showers to predict ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

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What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to ...

Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events just around the bend in 2025. Several companies will attempt moon ...

Rubin Observatory may shine a lot of light on dark ... skywatching events and more! When a comet gets close to the sun, the sunlight heats up the ice, causing it to sublimate, or transition ...

Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST ... These dusty tails — or comae — form because comets contain ice. When a comet gets close to the sun, the sunlight heats up the ice, causing ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...