Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

including the ATLAS comet—which is expected to appear in late October—and the Southern Taurids meteor shower, among others.

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

Comet Lovejoy was expected to vaporize but the 660-foot-wide rock was filmed making a great escape 'It was an extraordinary event' said one astronomer The comet came closer to the Sun than the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A family looks in awe as the Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, the ... [+] brightest comet of the ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.