Comet tails, often seen as beautiful celestial phenomena, are more than just a visual spectacle. They hold critical information about solar winds and the Sun’s activity, providing insight into the ...

Worlds that exist close to the warmth of the sun, like the rocky worlds of Mars, Earth and our moon, have relatively little ice, because they lie inside what is known as the ice line. National ...

See Comet Lemmon shine in the skies over England in a new sunset portrait. Award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury has ...

For those of you who like interesting night sky phenomena, there are actually two comets that are visible right now. Comet ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third observed interstellar object ever witnessed in Earth's solar system. The Gemini South telescope in Chile is the latest observatory to get a glimpse of the object as it ...

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Scientists have discovered seven more "dark comets," and analysis of this haul suggests that the puzzling planetoids are divided into two distinct families, further deepening the mystery of why these ...

A famous comet visiting from outside our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS is blazing through our cosmic neighborhood, leaving a striking trail in its wake. A ground telescope in Chile recently glimpsed ...