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

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

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

About one month has passed since Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 13 and showed us its beautifully extended･･･ ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Friday, Nov. 1, with sky charts, ...

Talk about a Halloween treat. A recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween, astronomers say. Comet C/2024 S1, first found at the end of ...

Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

An “ancient” comet that won’t be seen again for tens of thousands of years will be visible Thursday night, after traveling from beyond the solar system to within its closest point to Earth ...

Comet C/2023 A3 making closest pass to Earth Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has an 80,000 year orbit and, it just so happens, that it is now approaching its closest pass to Earth. On Wednesday ...

The Leonid meteor shower, considered a major shower, will bring along fireballs and "Earth-grazer" meteors. How to watch.

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Astronomers say the comet was last visible from Earth about 80,000 years ago when Neanderthals roamed the planet. Scientists in China and South Africa spotted it within about a month of each other ...