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

It’s only two years since known objects that look like asteroids and move like comets became numerous enough to get a name, ...

While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

NASA's NEOWISE reveals 15 years of cosmic discoveries, from asteroids to stunning infrared images, leaving a lasting legacy.

On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...

like the small acceleration known as the Yarkovsky effect. "When you see that kind of perturbation on a celestial object, it usually means it's a comet, with volatile material outgassing from its ...

Unfortunately, Battams said the chances of the comet surviving its close passage of the Sun are extremely low: 0.000 percent. "It's very small (maybe 10-20 meters?) and may already be mostly a ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 ...

Eberhardt was able to use what he called “student filmmaker tricks” to make the small $700,000 ... of a new Night of the Comet continues to persist. In 2018, Orion Pictures hired Roxanne ...

The highest number of meteors will be visible at around 2 a.m. tonight, when the constellation Gemini is at its highest point ...

A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has come within the sights of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The spacecraft captured ...