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

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

Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta mission ... Rosetta found lots of organic material and other data that revealed that a few noble gases in Earth's atmosphere come ...

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 ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

THE much-anticipated ‘Halloween Comet’ has been vaporised, in a sad day for amateur astronomers. Sun-grazing Comet C/2024 S2 ...

On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the ... Comet C/2024 S1 ...

Nasa maintains a log of asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth in what it calls the Asteroid Watch dashboard. It reveals the object’s approximate diameter ...

A city-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth this October and ... Like asteroid, comets can also threaten Earth, though the likelihood of a significant impact is relatively low.