Scientists believe they originate from a giant comet that broke up into smaller comets thousands of years ago. Many comets through history that have been given the name "Great" were all Kreutz ...
Comet White–Ortiz–Bolelli was a bright comet which appeared in 1970. It was a member of the Kreutz sungrazers, a family of comets which resulted from the break-up of a large parent comet several ...
Citizen scientist Zesheng Yang found the comet on Wednesday night. Karl Battams, manager of NASA's citizen science Sungrazer Project, said the small ice body should become fairly bright ...
A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up ...
Greetings, stargazers. This is the time of year to get your astronomer holiday wish list in order and make predictions for the new year. I was surprised to look through my previous columns and ...