A comet recently discovered zooming through our solar system has the potential to be quite bright when it arrives late in 2024, but comets have let us down before.

Scientist stunned by unique asteroid-comet hybrid discovery like nothing seen before Centaurs have properties similar to those of asteroids but act like comets at times (Picture: Metro.co.uk) ...

Space & Spaceflight Enormous Inbound Comet Appears as ‘Beautiful Little Fuzzy Dot’ in New Image This unassuming smudge could be the largest comet ever observed by astronomers.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well.

Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor shower, has intrigued scientists for years because it’s an asteroid that behaves like a comet. New research may reveal the reason why this oddball gets ...

NASA recently shared incredible images of a spacecraft crashing into an asteroid.

Home > Extreme Approaching Comet May Outshine All the Stars in the Sky Next Year Next year, this object could become one of the brightest objects in the night sky as it passes close to Earth.

According to new observations, scientists may have just found a comet or asteroid flying through our solar system that came from interstellar space.

And now we understand the violent cataclysm that caused it: the star's gravitational field tore the asteroid to bits, scattering its metallic bits in a shiny halo around the star.

Since astronomers couldn’t see a characteristic comet-like tail extending from it, most categorized it as an interstellar asteroid 3.

Comet Neowise streaks through the night sky above the forests of Girona, Spain, leaving behind a glowing trail of gas and dust. Humans have long had a fascination with comets and asteroids—both ...