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 ...

The chances that such a comet would be headed directly for Earth are rather low, but not zero. Astronomers estimate that such a collision with a large comet occurs roughly every few million years.

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

Controversially, he also claims that the rapid shift in climate patterns was caused by a collision with a comet in what he calls the 'Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis'. '12,800 years ago the Earth ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

No worries of a collision, though. The comet is about 44,000,000 miles away from our atmosphere and will be closest to Earth on Saturday night. Eskridge said to observe Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

An asteroid is set to pass by Earth on October 24 at 9:17 PM IST, NASA has revealed. This near-Earth object (NEO), named ...

Set your calendars on Nov. 18 (probably) for the Leonids meteor shower in the peak morning. You don't need a telescope to ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Now 94 million miles (151 million kilometers) from Earth and ... light to the comet. Look above Venus for the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra. Look halfway between Venus and Vega ...