The small, icy visitor now racing away from the inner solar system is not just another comet. It is an interstellar object, ...

NASA has now confirmed that 3I/ATLAS is not just another visitor from deep space but the largest interstellar comet ever measured, a frozen fragment of another star system sweeping through our own.

Exactly 150 summers ago, stargazers were admiring a beautiful new comet. Discovered in mid-July 1862 by Americans Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle, the new object became favorably positioned high in the ...

To best see the Quadrantid meteor shower, go to the darkest possible location, lean back and relax. You don't need equipment ...

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon on Oct. 11, 2025, as imaged by Gianluca Masi at The Virtual Telescope Project (www.virtualtelescope.eu). The Northern Hemisphere’s night skies this October are building toward ...

Stunning new photos show the pieces of the "other ATLAS," C/2025 K1, breaking apart in space after the golden comet suddenly exploded earlier this month. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A comet is a ball of ice and rock and is a leftover fragment from the formation of the solar system. Comets generally live very far away from the Earth, but occasionally they ...

Some of Hubble's most "impactful" observations captured comet fragments crashing into Jupiter. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was shredded by Jupiter’s gravity, and its fragments (21 in all) plunged into ...

NASA said that a meteor shower Monday night into Tuesday morning could be a dazzling display or a bust. According to NASA, Earth will pass through the debris left behind from 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the fragile comet on ...

The Orionids will be at their best in the wee hours of Oct. 21, when up to 20 meteors per hour might be seen from a dark, rural sky. They'll appear to stream from a point in the sky not far from ...