The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular as Saturn’s (whose are?) but they are there. However, one of them may not ...

This comet was one of a number of comets that are occasionally visible from Earth. They were created from a much larger comet ...

Here's when Ohio can expect to see eclipses, comets, northern lights and meteor showers in 2025, including a comet visiting ...

The North and South Taurids are meteor showers that come from the breakup of a large comet about 10,000 years ago, says Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...

Comets masquerading as asteroids are being found in increasing numbers, with 14 now known in the asteroid belt.

The largest comet discovered in modern times, it is among the most distant comets to be discovered with a coma, which means ice within the comet is vaporizing and forming an envelope of dust and ...

The nuclei of most comets are about 1-2 miles across. The nucleus of Halley's comet, which is considered to be fairly large, was approximately 10 miles across in its largest dimension. Hale-Bopp's ...

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 ...

At 12-25 miles (20-40km) across, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is very large. As comets get closer to the sun, they heat up and let off gases that can glow like a "tail" that stretches across vast ...

A celestial object found in 2021 within the asteroid belt was confirmed as a main-belt comet, distinguished by its icy composition and comet-like behaviors when near the Sun. Researchers emphasize the ...