The comet is now racing away from the sun following a close flyby on Jan. 20.

A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to ...

This discovery has drawn interest from both professional researchers and skywatchers because comets are ancient remnants from the early formation of ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is not just another icy visitor cutting across the night sky. As it hurtles through the inner solar system, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

JWST imaged 2024 YR4 in late March, making it the smallest object the telescope had imaged to date. The data its instruments collected indicate that based on the amount of heat it gives off, 2024 YR4 ...

Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets ...

Scientists in Boulder are using existing NASA spacecraft to track a rare interstellar comet called 31/ATLAS as it travels through Earth’s solar system. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first observed on July 1 and ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that won’t return until the next millennium. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), captured ...

LOS ANGELES, 14th February, 2026 (WAM) -- Astronomers tracking the movements of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak have found that it appears to have slowed its rotation, before the direction of its ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...