The boom appears to be linked to a SpaceX Dragon capsule reentering the atmosphere, according to a post on X from SpaceX.

A once-in-80,000-year sight will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend before heading into the vast abyss of outer space. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest approach to ...

Comet Nishimura has a hyperbolic orbit, which suggests that it may have come from outside the solar system and will likely be catapulted into interstellar space after slingshotting around the sun.

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

"He discovered a comet before any of the automated systems in space discovered it. So that's a real tribute to his persistence." Right now, it's only visible from the northern hemisphere.

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ... We are going to have the ‘biggest boom’ in the stock market we’ve ever seen ...

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

One of the largest comets known is about to zip by our planet on the only trip through the inner solar system it will make during our lifetimes. Five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Nasa astronaut Matthew Dominick said the comet currently looks like a “fuzzy star” when viewing it from the International Space Station. “This comet is going to make for some really cool ...

Nasa astronaut Dom Pettit captured a picture of Comet C/2024 G3 from the International Space Station (ISS), showing the space rock just above the Earth’s atmosphere. “It is totally amazing to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Stargazers will want to keep a close eye on the sky in the coming days, as a comet with a 69-year orbit is set to pass by Earth. It is called Comet 13P/Olbers, named ...

When an old comet disintegrates, it leaves bits of fluff to wander in space. But for all such intriguing theories, no one really knows much about comets. Even the brightest ones have a central ...