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

The 2021 movie Don’t Look Up starts with a shocking premise: a comet estimated to be 5-10km in diameter is hurtling towards ...

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

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

The Leonid meteor shower is set to delight stargazers, sending shooting stars streaking across the night sky. The Leonids – ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and ...

Astronomers believe that these Kreutz Path comets are all the remains of a much larger comet that disintegrated sometime in the past. The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec.

The Leonid meteor shower has been building up to its peak this weekend giving stargazers the best chance to see the amazing ...

Like Icarus, comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after flying too close the sun. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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 ...