Keep your eye on the sky tonight. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first ...

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

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 bad news is that the while the comet will be at its brightest on Sunday and Monday as it as its closest to the Sun, it also be lost in the Sun's glare. As it rounds the Sun it will come into view ...

This is exactly like the behaviour of a comet, with the activity repeating every time it nears perihelion (the closest point to the sun in its orbit). The Gemini South observations indicated that 456P ...

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

However, the Quadrantid influx is sharply peaked: six hours before and after maximum, these blue meteors appear at only half ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala University’s Astronomical Observatory here has traced the path of the elusive comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), dubbed as ‘comet of the century’, and also ...

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 ...