The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...

Yang Changshi/VCG via Getty Images The comet will also be at its closest point to the Earth and might become the brightest comet of the year during a year when no other comets are set to be ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the detections of seven dark comets in two distinct populations, bringing the total of known dark comets to 14.

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

A University of Michigan-led study published in the journal Icarus makes the case that a large part of earth’s water may have come from so-called ‘dark comets.’ Dark comets are near-earth ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

People in the northern hemisphere will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars during the planetary parade. The next full moon will happen on Feb. 12. Known as the ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.