Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until its first bounce landing. The European Space Agency captured the “song” of the ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...

BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will round Earth mid-month, but an astronaut on the International Space Station captured amazing ...

TAKE A LOOK. THAT IS A COMET THAT WAS VISIBLE IN THE NIGHT SKY. WE’RE GETTING PICTURES LIKE THIS FROM ALL AROUND THE STATE. I HAD TO LOOK UP IN THE SKY, SEE IF I COULD SEE THIS. WE HAVE CLEAR ...

A solar wind also creates another tail by stripping ion off the comet’s surface, according to NASA. The comet, which was only discovered in 2023, is believed to have originated in the Oort Cloud ...

Jets of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gas were seen coming from a centaur, but what drives them is a big mystery.

Didn't get enough of last week's northern lights and want more celestial phenomena? A comet that's visible only once every 80,000 years is overhead now. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS likely ...

Comet A3, also known as Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3), is now putting on a show to those in ... [+] the Northern Hemisphere (image shows Comet NEOWISE C/2020 F3 from 2020). UPDATE: Early eye ...

Did you see it?Some stargazers Tuesday night were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of a rare comet.The comet, called A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), was discovered in 2023, and likely won't make ...