Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...
Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...
THE much-anticipated ‘Halloween Comet’ has been vaporised, in a sad day for amateur astronomers. Sun-grazing Comet C/2024 S2 ...
NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...
Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...
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 ...
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on ...
ATLAS, discovered in 2023, has made its closest approach to the Sun.According to reports, the long-period comet last visited ...
Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7 ... After that approach, ...
Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta mission ... Rosetta found lots of organic material and ...
If Pluto was somehow deflected toward the inner solar system, there is a good chance it would develop quite a tail. Comets that originate in this ... time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from ...