A celestial object found in 2021 within the asteroid belt was confirmed as a main-belt comet, distinguished by its icy composition and comet-like behaviors when near the Sun. Researchers emphasize the ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...

A week after the northern lights were visible in the Mid-Atlantic, a rare comet made an appearance. But, if you missed it ...

A meteor shower is a celestial event in which numerous meteors, or shooting stars, streak —across the sky as Earth passes through the debris trail of a comet or asteroid. A comet is a small icy ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. I saw and photographed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) last night. Having emerged from the sun's glare, Friday, Oct. 11 ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

The last time the comet was spotted was 50,000 years ago. Nasa officials said the icy visitor was first spotted in March 2022 while it was inside the orbit of Jupiter. It has been visible to those ...

Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was seen over the hills near the village of Aguas Blancas in Uruguay at dawn on 28 September A comet that was seen from Earth last month for the first time in 80,000 ...