One of the best meteor showers of the year is about to peak. Here's how to watch and where you can catch the Geminids.

The Geminids are the early bird’s meteor shower as the sun sets early in December, and the constellation Gemini — from which ...

First, there were the northern lights that danced and splashed a pallet of colors across the nighttime skies that marveled sky-lookers. And now it's been the once-in-a-lifetime comet. The comet ...

Astrophotography is largely done by taking multiple images of objects and stacking them together to increase contrast, brightness and color. In reality this comet is very faint—so far.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is no ordinary comet. This icy space rock, roughly the size of a city, has a few tricks up its sleeve. First, its bright green color comes from diatomic carbon molecules that ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

The meteor shower is caused by debris from the Comet Tempel-Tuttle ... resulting in “explosions of light and color,” according to NASA. Meteors during the Leonid shower are considered to ...

Now, the latest celestial event on display is a “cosmic snowball” — a rare comet that was last visible around 80,000 years ago and that astronomers estimate won’t be visible again for another 80 ...

Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was seen over the hills near the village of Aguas Blancas in Uruguay at dawn on 28 September A comet that was seen from Earth last month for the first time in 80,000 ...