As these bodies slowly draw closer to the Sun ... spreading out behind the comet along its orbital path, often taking on a curved shape. Meanwhile, the ion tail, which is more strongly affected ...

Did you see the comet? Visible just after sunset for the last week from the northern hemisphere — and now receding from Earth along its orbital path — comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (also called C ...

In a recent study, scientists developed a groundbreaking model to trace how the chemistry of one comet, known as "Hale-Bopp," ...

The comet, discovered in January 2023, reached its perihelion—the point in its orbit where it’s closest to the Sun—on September 27. Its path then ... parent body’s orbital plane.

NASA officials said the comet made its closest transit past the sun on Sept. 27 and is on track to come within approximately 44 million miles of Earth on Saturday. Given its orbital path ...

The comet successfully reached perihelion, its closest point to the sun in its orbital path around the parent star, on Sept. 27 and was visible for those in the Southern Hemisphere in September ...

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

The comet successfully reached perihelion, its closest point to the sun in its orbital path around the parent star, on September 27, and was visible for those in the Southern Hemisphere in ...

The comet successfully reached perihelion, its closest point to the sun in its orbital path around the parent star, on Sept. 27, and was visible for those in the Southern Hemisphere in September ...