In the days following its perihelion, people around the world snapped some stunning pictures of the comet and its spectacular tail. While not visible from the Northern Hemisphere, people in the ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The “comet of the century” that was likely last seen by the Neanderthals seemed to develop a physics-defying second tail as ...

The boiling is so intense, that the world has developed a comet-like tail stretching 350,000 miles behind it, scientists announced on Tuesday. Don't retire on this planet The planet, called WASP ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

It has long been assumed that the gases of a comet tail are pushed away from the comet by the pressure of light from the sun. It now appears that many tails are caused by a wind of charged particles ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

G3 (ATLAS), the 'Great Comet of 2025,' lit up the night sky in Chile, offering a rare and breathtaking sight for stargazers, ...

That is, until 1910. Halley’s Comet was expected to make its appearance and this time, the Earth would be passing through its tail. While he did preface the thoughts with the idea that anything ...

since the comet will rise near Venus, which appears as the brightest "star" in the sky. Look for a "bright, fuzzy head" with "a short, westward-pointing tail," Bob King of Sky and Telescope wrote ...

The brightest object left of center is the moon, while the faint, wispy tail of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) can be seen at the far left, just to the right of one of the observatory's telescopes.