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

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

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

A volcanic comet moving around in the inner solar system has suddenly become extremely violent, blasting out four times in 48 ...

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

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 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...