Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, may not have survived its recent trip past the sun and is fading fast.

As a comet spins up, it starts to fall apart, which is likely what is happening to Comet SWAN now before it ceases to be an ...

The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...

A distant exoplanet is quickly disintegrating 140 light-years from Earth, spotted by MIT astronomers through NASA's TESS ...

In the days ahead, stargazers will have a chance to witness some Lyrid meteors before the shower hits its peak in activity ...

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

The comet won't swing close to Earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020 and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the 1990s. The comet, also designated C/2025 ...

The Lyrids are best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere during the dark hours between midnight and dawn. The website Time and ...

When we gaze up at the night sky, we might spot shooting stars, meteor showers, or even a comet soaring across the void. One awe-inspiring cosmic event that piques the interest of both astronomers and ...