So it [was] a good telescope object.” Another comet visible in the southern hemisphere passed too close to the sun and paid ...

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

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com ...

The Popular Astronomy Club meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Butterworth Center in Moline. All are ...

There will be plenty of opportunities to catch a shooting star this month, with tonight and tomorrow night being a peak viewing time.

Recently, we were gifted with the return of a once-every-80,000-years comet. From the college mesa, as I scanned the horizon, ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has come within the sights of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The ...

The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as ...

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

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...