Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, ...

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to whiz past the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to ...

Here’s something that you’ll kick yourself if you miss – a comet that only grazes the Earth every 160,000 years will be ...

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be ...

Comet ISON from 2012-2013 was a good example of ... These hopes were initially confirmed just before perihelion (its closest distance to the Sun), as it showed up brightly in predawn southern ...

In 1997, Lieder's Nibiru Collision theory first came to public attention through various Internet newsgroups devoted to discussions of extraterrestrials, which coincided with the news media's growing ...

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 began life in a small New York non-profit theatre a decade ago, staged as a wild immersive party by Rachel Chavkin. Then it soared to Broadway ...

This “dark comet” has had astronomers scratching their heads ever since. Flash forward to today, and more of these mysterious objects have been discovered, with another ten announced just last ...

The Geminids originate from a rocky asteroid called 3200 Phaethon with a comet-like orbit and were first observed in 1862. Dr Minjae Kim, a research fellow in the physics department at the ...

"Parker Solar Probe is opening our eyes to a new reality about our star." On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will swoop within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's ...

One of the best meteor showers of 2024 closes out the year this coming weekend. If skies are clear, watch for the Geminid meteors, peaking on the night of Friday into Saturday, December 13-14th. To be ...

It may not look like much in this sequence of images taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft from a distance of half a billion miles in January, but the comet identified as C/2012 S1 (ISON ...