Tag: comets

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 ...

There aren’t many comets that are visible to observers without binoculars or telescopes. But one may be coming, and coming ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) captured on 31 December 2024 using a telescope in Río Hurtado, ChileLionel Majzik A comet that ...

This artist's impression shows a so-called dark comet in our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The water that makes up the ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our ...

As 2024 winds down, so too is the Geminid meteor shower. One of the final meteor showers of the year ...