The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Comet A3 hasn't been past Earth since the Neanderthals. Your last chance to see it is approaching fast. Here's where and how ...

The amazing skyward spectacles continue. We've seen a lot of cool things in the heavens lately, whether it's the Northern Lights, eclipses, meteor showers or planetary alignments. It's time to add ...

On January 19, the bright little speck of its nucleus vanished, suggesting that the comet fragmented after its passage around the Sun. What's left is a ghost: tails still streaming across the sky ...

The American Meteor Society adds that the Lyrids usually lack persistent trains but can produce "fireballs." A fireball "is ...

This is what happened when Halley’s Comet was expected to be visible from Earth in 1910. Back in the 1700s, an astronomer by the name of Edmond Halley predicted that three bright comets that ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Following perihelion, the comet showed signs of disintegration but still put on a dazzling display of bright tails. As it heads toward the edge of the solar system, it will slowly start to fade.

Halley found the similarities in the orbits of bright comets reported in 1531, 1607, and 1682 and he suggested that the trio was actually a single comet making return trips. Article continues ...