Comets are among the most exciting celestial objects to watch. These visitors from the outer reaches of the solar system are ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

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 ...

Halley’s comet is the most famous of this type. The other repository of comets is called the Oort cloud. This vast cloud is thousands of times more distant and much more spherical than the Keiper belt ...

A comet is defined as an icy body that is small in size and can develop a ‘tail’ of gas as it approaches the Sun from the outer Solar System. The key traits of a comet are its nucleus, coma, and tail.

If you spotted comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in person, or seen photos online this October, you might have been ...

NASA has identified mysterious "green spots" on the surface of Mars, with the exciting discovery raising the tantalising possibility of past microbial life on the planet. Although NASA has ...

From a readily visible comet to a regularly scheduled supermoon, October’s night sky was busier than usual, topped off with t ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and ...

NASA’s Sungrazer Project ... such as the October Orionids which are particles from the famous Halley’s comet. The next meteor shower, the Southern Taurids, is expected to peak on the ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...