OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system of ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, shows a surface with subtle, but significant color variations. To the naked eye comet 67P ...

Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...

While scientists already knew of the existence of frozen water under the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a team of researchers at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome has ...

The agency has even launched missions to study comets up close, like Giotto's rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986 and ...

Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

The Narendra Modi government has approved Chandrayaan-4, a follow-up mission to the successful Chandrayaan-3, aimed at ...

We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked-eye object in our October evening skies. We are now coming down the home stretch regarding ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The comet was discovered on August 12, 2023 by Hideo Nishimura during 30-second exposures with a ... [+] standard digital camera.

One expert predicts that the comet could reach peak brightness by the second week of October, nearly as bright as Venus, making it faintly visible even in daylight. We could see a comet pass ...

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 ...

chance of seeing both a naked-eye comet and the northern lights. September is one of the best months of the year for stargazing in the northern hemisphere. Not only do the nights get longer and ...