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

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

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on ...

November brings sky watchers brilliant views, with the Northern Taurids and Leonid meteor showers peaking this week and a full supermoon in between.

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

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 night of November 4 into the early mo ...

new sets of comet particles fall off that quickly turns into elongated streaks of light. During the peak of a Leonids storm, viewers can see hundreds to thousands of meteors per hour. The last ...

According to the American Meteor Society, Earth encounters the Southern Taurids stream first each year, around September 23.

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

Stellar Stories Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS now a faint naked-eye object Moving across the constellation Ophiuchus in the evening ...

The large, bright Taurid meteors are characterized by their vibrant explosions of color and extended trails, often visible ...

Relative positions of the Earth, the comet and the Sun allow us to see sunlight on larger particles left behind by the comet, according to EarthSky. From our perspective, these cometary particles ...