On November 14, the renowned "horned comet" (12P) appeared like a perfect round ball. However, the very next day, observers could barely recognize it. Its shape seemed to be slashed by a dark ...

A devil comet — an uncommon horned comet officially named Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks — is forecast to make an appearance in the same month as the total solar eclipse. Sporting a shape reminiscent ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks showing a horned/horseshoe shape during an outburst last summer. The headlines are wild and the hype is ...

Last year, another comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, drew attention with similar explosions that gave it a horned shape, earning it the ...

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 ...

That happened in the summer of 2023 when Pons-Brooks earned it the nickname the “devil comet” because of the horned-like appearance caused by a cloud of gas in front of its nucleus ...

Now, a once-in-a-lifetime comet is visible in the sky. The A3 comet — short for Tsuchinshan–ATLAS — is making its pass by earth. It won't be visible again for 80,000 years, according to ...

Talk about a Halloween treat. A recently discovered comet will be blazing by the Earth in broad daylight just in time for Halloween, astronomers say. Comet C/2024 S1, first found at the end of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic ...

What is a horned screamer? Horned screamers are the unicorns of the bird world. Over the course of their lives, these birds grow long, white spines of cartilage in the middle of their foreheads.

The short-horned lizard is often referred to as a “horned toad” or “horny toad” because its squat, flattened shape and short, blunt snout give it a toad-ish look. There are over a dozen ...