One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be able to see it?

Here’s something that you’ll kick yourself if you miss – a comet that only grazes the Earth every 160,000 years will be ...

Dark comets are more elusive than their bright siblings. They lack the glowing tails ... large telescope in Chile. This camera can't "see" dark energy directly, but it was designed to take massive ...

Its speed and path around the Sun don’t match a typical asteroid, but it also has no bright tail ... for our large telescopes around the world. The discovery of ten new dark comets revealed ...

On the right is a larger, icy, bright comet with a glowing tail ... a large telescope in Chile. This camera can’t “see” dark energy directly, but it was designed to take massive photos ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...

The behavior of 2003 RM looked to humans more like that of a comet, which regularly gets nudged this or that way by outgassing. Yet the asteroid lacks the typical tail of a comet, so it's not that ...

As their name suggests, main-belt comets tend to inhabit the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But they grow tails just like ... "We had a big enough number of dark comets that we ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...