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

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 ...

Instead, they are made from dust that has recently been left behind by the comet in its orbital plane around the sun. When Earth passes through this plane, as it did over the weekend, this ...

This occurred as the SOHO spacecraft, positioned at Lagrange Point L1 between Earth and the sun, crossed the comet’s orbital ...

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.

“I expect that at night this comet will only be visible with binoculars or a telescope, as its path will not bring it very close to the Earth.” Johnston added that the latitude areas around ...

If you're lucky, you may even spot the comet's "anti-tail," which points in the opposite direction of its long dust tail. The anti-tail shows the path where the comet has traveled through space.

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 ...

This rare sight is made up of larger dust particles only visible as Earth is crosses the comet's orbital plane. It is expected to fade through the week. Comets are dirty snowballs, the left overs ...

Stargazers will be in for a rare treat tonight as they'll get a chance to not only catch a glimpse of the elusive Comet C/2023 A3 ... before it continues its orbital path. In reality, a full ...