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

The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...

BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

“We're actually viewing this comet's curved tail edge on, so it will look like part of the tail is above the head of the comet, but then the tail wraps down past the head of the comet, making it ...

As such, the comet will contain material that has undergone minimal processing, offering a 'cleaner' look at pristine ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

Sky at Night Magazine added, "Comet A3 will actually look like either a short section of an airplane contrail in the sky, perhaps as long as your index finger, or a little longer, or it will look ...

While Leonid meteor storms, which occur when Earth passes through a dense debris field from Comet 55P ... Kareta says to look ...

The Leonid meteor shower is expected to make its annual appearance in the night sky on Nov. 18, seen in the direction of the ...

It won't twinkle like the stars do, and it will look a bit blurrier, with less defined borders. It may appear elongated because of the comet's tail, which is dust and gas flowing off its icy body.

For me there is little else that inspires such awe and wonder of the world -- and of life -- as celestial events.