A n incoming comet that could be visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth later this year may be doomed to disintegrate before we get the chance to see it up close, a new study suggests. Recent ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks currently lies beyond the orbit of Mars as it speeds towards the inner solar system traveling at more than 73,000 miles per hour (20 km/sec). In the coming weeks and months ...

It has since been determined to actually be an incoming comet. When the comet was first sighted, it was far out beyond the orbit of Jupiter, some 680 million miles (1.09 billion km) from the sun.

Stargazers have been aflutter all year about an incoming comet, expected to brighten the night sky as it passes close to the Earth this fall. The only problem? The comet might already be falling ...

We have nothing to fear from the incoming Comet ISON, no matter how the icy object behaves during its much-anticipated close approach to the sun this November, scientists say.

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Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein offers a rare opportunity for a generation of astronomers to ... an exoplanet-hunting space telescope operated by NASA that also captured images of the incoming comet.

An incoming comet that could be visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth later this year may be doomed to disintegrate before we get the chance to see it up close, a new study suggests.

A new paper suggests that comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, may completely break apart before it reaches its closest approach to Earth in October. If the comet does survive long ...