Tag: comets

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, a weird and wonderful comet breaks up. Over three days ...

Back to Article List Detected on July 1 by NASA’s ATLAS survey, 3I/ATLAS becomes the third confirmed interstellar object — ...

A cataclysmic asteroid collision may not sound like the starting place for life. But 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub ...

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need ...

Every spring, Earth passes through a cosmic trail left behind by one of the most famous visitors from the outer ...

One of the world’s greatest mysteries is how life on Earth began. Scientists have long sought to decipher where and ...

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower as visible in Sri Lanka in 2024Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/ Getty Images The Lyrids and Eta Aquarids ...

This snapshot shows the overall orbit and current position of Comet C/2025 D1 (Gröller) on March 11, 2025. Note that ...

Several bright jets spew from the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as ices on the nucleus turn to gas. This image ...

Astrophysicists have taken images of a large sample of exocomet belts for the first time, imaging the bands along with ...