Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the ...

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.

Confirmed as an alien comet, new observations have given us a much better idea of how large this interstellar object actually ...

A new comet making its way toward the Earth got a dose of the sun's true power when a gust of solar wind blew away its tail. The comet, named C/2023 P1, or Nishimura, has continued to approach the ...

The tail sheered off in the face of massive waves of solar energy. Streaming Stars New footage from NASA shows an eruption from our Sun breaking the tail off of a comet whizzing by, IFLScience ...

Recent claims from Harvard say a comet traveling through our solar system could be a UFO—MSU researchers say they aren't true ...

As material sheds from a comet’s nucleus, it leaves behind two tails: a thin ion tail, made of charged particles, and a more diffuse dust tail that reflects visible light. The ion tail always ...

The tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks appears crooked in recent observations, likely due to a "disconnection event" caused by a CME hitting the comet. This phenomenon was observed previously with ...

‘Comet C2021 S3’ depicts the comet being observed in January 2024 by a different research team. A comet is set to pass by Earth this spring, and it may be missing its tail. The comet poses no ...

A surprise coronal mass ejection recently smashed into Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, briefly causing the "devil comet" to lose its tail — and a NASA spacecraft caught the whole thing on camera.

C/2021 S3 PanSTARRS will safely pass by Earth this spring, and researchers are asking for help photographing the comet's journey to see if its tail has been detached by strong solar winds.