ATLAS now a faint naked-eye object Moving across the constellation Ophiuchus in the evening sky, Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan ...

Earth passes through the debris left behind by comets every fall from September to November and ... SpaceX successfully ...

While the Southern Taurids are active between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8, the celestial light show will be most visible Monday and ...

Set your calendars on Nov. 18 (probably) for the Leonids meteor shower in the peak morning. You don't need a telescope to ...

A meteor shower known for blazing fireballs is set to peak on Monday night into early Tuesday and could present a dazzling ...

A recently discovered comet that scientists and amateur astronomers hoped would be visible on Halloween was in an orbit a … ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

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 ...

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ESA and NASA observers.

And now it's been the once-in-a-lifetime comet. The comet first entered our orbit Oct. 12 when it was closest to Earth at approximately 44 million miles. Since then, observers, especially in ...

When frozen, comets are the size of a small town, but as their orbit nears the sun, the comet heats up and begins shedding material, leaving a glowing trail behind.

The comet was just discovered in 2023, when it approached the inner solar system on its highly elliptical orbit for the first time in documented human history, according to NASA. C/2023 A3 ...