On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

As we round the corner of 2024, there are plenty of events happening when you should keep your eyes to the sky.

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

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

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

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don't worry. The second branch ...

The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a centaur, a class of objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. However, it displays ...

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through dusty debris trails left by comets and other space objects as they orbit the ...

"You would be hard pressed to find two comets that are completely alike," Drew Christianson from the University of Virginia, ...