The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets ...

This newly discovered comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS), a rare Kreutz sungrazer, could blaze brightly in early April — or it could disintegrate entirely. Here's what to know.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday3This dark, moonless Friday the 13th evening is the perfect time ...

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), originating from the edge of the Solar System, is set to grace Indian skies in a once-in-a-lifetime event.

A newly discovered comet has astronomers buzzing with excitement, with the potential to put on a spectacular show in early ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

Even interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, at a distance of approximately 3.51 astronomical units (4.6) in relation to the Sun, was already generating water, and this is an energy regime in which a water ice ...

The object is known as C/2026 A1 (MAPS), discovered extremely recently on January 20 by a group of French amateur astronomers ...