While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear. When you ...

comets can bridge the divide between astronomy and astrology. They are unique enough, and unsettling enough, to fit within both approaches to skywatching. The earliest written mythology ...

“Some comets are like couples—they break up, but then they get back together down the road,” says Distinguished Professor Daniel Scheeres of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers have some new insight into the activity of centaurs, giant comets that could have a devastating impact if they hit the Earth's surface. Produced by ...