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

While Leonid meteor storms, which occur when Earth passes through a dense debris field from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle ... We ...

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 ...

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

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a centaur, a class of objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. However, it displays ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com ...

Recently, we were gifted with the return of a once-every-80,000-years comet. From the college mesa, as I scanned the horizon, ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has come within the sights of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The ...

The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.

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

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...