Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a centaur, a class of objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. However, it displays ...

While the Southern Taurids already hit their peak last week, the Northern Taurids, visible Oct. 13-Dec. 2 will be at their ...

The best time to view the Taurid meteor shower is around midnight when the shower's radiant (the spot in the sky from which ...

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

The comet blasted off four times within hours and left astronomers wondering about why has it suddenly become so active ...

BAA astronomers monitoring 29P noted that these four eruptions released a cloud of debris that reflected nearly 289 times ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

The comet's solid nucleus, the source of the whole show, is a dirty space iceberg, probably just a few miles wide, according to Sky & Telescope. It fell in toward the sun from the cold and dark ...

Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

The previous record-holder for largest comet was C/2002 VQ94, with a nucleus estimated to be 60 miles across. Researchers say the scale of Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which has a mass of 500 trillion ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...