Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

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

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

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Sunday, Oct. 27, with sky charts, ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Wednesday, Oct. 30, with sky charts ...

“Comet C/2023 A3 is no threat to Earth,” Peter Veres, a research scientist at the Minor Planet Center, previously told FOX Weather. “We know the comet’s orbit well. The orbit is becoming ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days before and after.

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 ...

Typically at the point of “perihelion” — which is defined as the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun –many comets fall apart due to intense ...

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

About half all comets are from the region known as the Keiper belt. This is a disk aligned with the solar system (but not quite as flat) that lies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The most famous Keiper ...