While the total solar eclipse was the celestial focus in April 2024, the "Devil Comet" also received attention from skywatchers. Known officially and scientifically as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, the rare ...

Since its discovery, astronomers have been frantically trying to gather as much information as they can about the newest interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS. It's been challenging, but they've ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The most famous comet of all time, Halley's Comet, is finally heading back towards the sun. It reached its aphelion on Dec. 8, this marks the furthest distance away from the sun in ...

Jun. 30—Sky watchers disappointed that the total eclipse will skirt New Mexico on April 8 can find consolation in the "devil's comet," now visible in the western sky just after sunset. The comet, ...

Telescopes around the world are now tracking a new visitor to our celestial neighborhood. Streaking through at a speed and trajectory that not even the Sun's immense gravity can capture, we will only ...

RAYMOND (WGME) - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with our own eyes- but on Saturday, some folks in Maine got the chance to do just that! According to CBS News, the comet "C/2023 ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper published in the journal Icarus, two SETI Institute researchers show that ...

The most famous comet of all is headed back toward Earth. Halley’s comet reached aphelion — its farthest point from the sun — on Dec. 8, at which point it began its long journey back to the sun. For ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Comet Tsuchinshan-Atalas will streak across the night sky and reach peak visibility on Oct. 13. These celestial travelers have captured the minds of many with their beauty for ...