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

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

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of ...

BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

An ancient comet is gracing our night skies this month. Catch it now because it won’t be back for another 80,000 years. Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, discovered in 2023, is expected to be visible ...

however it was not bright and mornings clouds on the horizon hid the comet from sight. Its path through space has now brought it to the evening sky, making it visible in the west just after sunset.

The comet’s path will take it higher and higher in the night sky until around Halloween night, when it will start to dim and become more challenging to see with the naked eye. The Comet C/2023 ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...

BOSTON - Comet Atlas has been flirting with Massachusetts. It began very low in the eastern horizon a few weeks ago and now it has reappeared in the west in the evenings. However, until now ...

A once-in-many-lifetimes comet is zipping by Earth right now. Comet C/2023 A3 — known simply as Comet A3 — was first discovered last year and was first visible in the night sky earlier this ...