A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 ...

When 3I/ATLAS went round the back of the Sun as seen by Earth, the instant seemed as though it were a shut door. On October ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission observed infrared emissions from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, documenting changes in dust, gas, and ...

STUNNED astronomers have spotted a new comet out in space – and it this could be a pretty special one. There’s a chance it’ll ...

That community recently came together to observe Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as it passed through the night sky. Near ...

The breakup was caused by the extreme conditions near the Sun; during its latest approach, C/2025 K1 flew as close as 0.334 ...

The findings, detailed in papers posted on arXiv, mark a rare scientific achievement for an object that formed around a star ...

King William should have seen his demise coming, according to the medieval omen experts of his era. Halley’s comet appeared not long after he assumed the throne, and everyone at the time knew such ...

Astronomers are excited about the newly discovered comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS), which was spotted by amateur astronomers in the ...

The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet ...