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

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

Many have already viewed Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which has been dubbed “ the comet of the century ” — capturing ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

The Suzi Bass Awards drum up excitement in the Atlanta professional theater community every fall, with nominees waiting for November’s big reveal to find out how they fared. This year, Horizon Theatre ...

"Rosetta sitting in this flow was a very important part of the mission; it informed our understanding of how comet plasma ...

NASA says a recently discovered comet has broken apart as it approached the sun. The space agency said Tuesday its ...

a space observatory operated by NASA and the European Space Agency spied its demise. The comet is thought to be part of a family of comets that pass incredibly close to the sun.

It is part of the Kreutz sungrazer family of comets that approach the sun, believed to be fragments of a larger comet that broke apart long ago. These comets' orbits typically bring them close to ...

They appear to have been formed by 10 or more related space rocks including the comet 2P/Encke. One hypothesis is that Comet ...

A comet nicknamed the “Halloween comet” disintegrated ... “Historically, comets have always been a source of fascination to people, in part due to the fact that they are such infrequent ...