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

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

relatively far from comet nuclei. It took the proximity of Rosetta's orbit around the comet and the measurements made much ...

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

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days ...

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 ...

But as the comet, composed of ice, frozen gases and rock, came closer to its perihelion — the nearest point to the sun in its orbit — over the past few days, it broke apart into chunks until ...

Those pieces sustain the original comet's legacy by following the same risky orbit, bringing them to the edge of the Sun's fiery atmosphere with every perihelion—an orbit's closest point to the Sun.

A comet that was hoped to be visible to the naked eye over the coming days has been gobbled up by the sun. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), passed its closest point to Earth on October 24 ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its orbit. There were earlier hopes that the comet, ...

Many have already viewed Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which has been dubbed “the comet of the century” — capturing captivating images of the celestial marvel this month from various parts of ...