On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail.' Miguel Claro ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) will not outshine Venus this Halloween, after all. NASA has confirmed that the feisty comet had met its end by flying into the Sun's atmosphere, obliterating what little ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

A week after the northern lights were visible in the Mid-Atlantic, a rare comet made an appearance. But, if you missed it Wednesday, don’t worry; you still have a few more days to catch it.

There’s a chance a “Halloween” comet will become visible tonight, with also a possibility of seeing it during the daytime if it doesn’t break apart while approaching the sun, according to ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is still visible in the night sky, and you can watch it live today thanks to a free livestream. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is growing dimmer as it speeds away from ...

Highlights include a geomagnetic storm causing the northern lights to reach as far south as Texas and the visibility of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, observable in the western sky post-sunset until ...

And now it's been the once-in-a-lifetime comet. The comet first entered our orbit Oct. 12 when it was closest to Earth at approximately 44 million miles. Since then, observers, especially in ...

If you want to see what people are calling "the comet of the century," your last chance is coming up soon, as it will most likely not be visible with the naked eye anymore after this weekend.

In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.