Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

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

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

observational data revealed the comet had a new path that could remove it from our solar system completely. If the conditions are right, comets can leave debris trails that cause meteor showers if ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

Scientists were calling this latest comet the ‘Headless Halloween Comet’ for its possible earthly view near Halloween. The ...

The estimate on this particular comet is that if it is in a stable orbit, its last path to the inner solar system was about 80,000 years ago.' While comets often appear as a flaming fireball in ...