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 comet, which orbits the Sun every 1,60,000 years, was first discovered on April 5 ... made a grand appearance in images ...

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

As Comet Atlas nears its closest approach to the Sun, it is expected to become visible to the naked eye in the coming days ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...