The comet's rocks and dust turn into a meteoroid stream, and their path parallels the comet's. When these meteoroid streams ...

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

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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

Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...

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

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

The estimate on this particular comet is that if it is in a stable orbit, its last path to the inner solar system was about 80,000 years ago.' While comets often appear as a flaming fireball in ...

A week after the northern lights were visible in the Mid-Atlantic, a rare comet made an appearance. But, if you missed it Wednesday, don’t worry; you still have a few more days to catch it.

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) appeared in the morning sky late last month, however it was not bright and mornings clouds on the horizon hid the comet from sight. Its path through space ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is still visible in the night sky, and you can watch it live today thanks to a free livestream. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is growing dimmer as it speeds away from ...