How to Stop an Incoming Comet. The icy bodies are fast, wild and and can “come out of nowhere,” unlike many asteroids. By Mike Wall. Steve Elliott Flickr .

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 ...

With these instruments, amateurs have been the first to re-image Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

In order for the tail to be hidden, the incoming comet would need to be directed straight at us, aligned so that the Sun, the Earth and the comet made a straight line.

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.

Comet 252P/LINEAR will safely fly past Earth on March 21, 2016, at a range of about 3.3 million miles (5.2 million kilometers). The following day, comet P/2016 BA14 will safely fly by our planet ...

The incoming comet is like nothing scientists have seen before and is believed to have come from another star system. That makes the visitor, known as 2I/Borisov, ...

Instead of one incoming comet, we'll have many pieces of incoming comet that could blanket-bomb an entire hemisphere of our planet. Depending on what the comet is made of ...