An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

The G3 Atlas comet has returned to our galaxy for a once-in-a-lifetime event and is now visible in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

A recently discovered comet is making a bright debut to Earth this month, and with some effort, sky gazers might be able to ...