This comet is one of the brightest that we’ve seen on earth since 1997! It’s not very often that we get to experience the visual bliss of a soaring comet. Are you ready to learn about comets?

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object ...

Discover ten surprising facts about comets, including Comet Halley and why comets are dirty snowballs! Click to learn more.

A comparison of dark comets and bright comets set against the Milky Way. On the left, a small, rocky, dark comet represents their typical size of one metre to a few hundred metres wide.

Researchers have simulated how comets pinballing from one planet to another could deliver critical organic molecules to exoplanets.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is appearing higher up in the western sky each night, and remaining in the sky for longer, but since it's getting farther from Earth and the sun each night, it's getting ...

Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun. In a new study, they ascribe the differences to the conditions in the ...

In 2017, astronomers found an object they’d never seen before. Now, it’s part of a growing category of elusive ‘dark comets’ – and we might find more soon.

Dark comets are often small, just a few metres to a few hundred metres wide. This leaves less surface area for material to escape and form into the beautiful tails we see on typical comets.