An incoming comet that could be visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth later this year may be doomed to disintegrate ...

While some comet experts think Comet Tsunchinchan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) will "soon be no longer," others think it's doing just fine. In recent months there has been a gradual build-up of excitement ...

Right now Comet ISON, somewhere between 1 and 10 kilometers in diameter, is just beyond the orbit of Jupiter. As it races past us toward the sun it should develop a tail that will light up the ...

Most recently, it was being used to observe the comet ISON. Unfortunately, due to the computer bug, the team had not acquired the latest images of ISON, A'Hearn said in the most recent status update.

The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread climatic shift that, among other things, led to the abrupt reversal of the ...

HUNT FOR A SUPER COMET chronicles the journey of Comet ISON from the outer solar system to its perilous journey towards the sun, where it met a deadly fate, leaving behind decades worth of ...

The ninth floor of Oxford’s Seacourt Tower was transformed as the 4.5-billion-year-old comet Ison hurtled past earth at 143,000mph. Local artists held a two-day astral exhibition last Thursday ...