Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

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

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Friday, Nov. 1, with sky charts, ...

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

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days before and after.

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.

The Comet Class Winter Series continued in Sy George’s Harbour, with Allan Frith and his crew Sarah Frith claiming victory.