These images also revealed a very condensed coma and short tail which indicated that it was not an asteroid, but a comet. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as viewed through telescopes in Chile and ...

Then there’s whatever the heck 2006 Chiron is. Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid – found bouncing ...

It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have better observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well.. The strange rock ...

For untold eons, a comet has been drifting through space, paying a visit to Earth every 80,000 years or so. This time, astronomers were on the lookout and gave it a name: C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan ...

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 ...

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Enormous Inbound Comet Appears as ‘Beautiful Little Fuzzy Dot’ in New Image ... The comet, surrounded by a gaseous cloudy layer, can be seen at the center of this synthetic color composite image.

Researchers are still hoping for more observations of A/2017 U1 to nail down exactly where this comet or asteroid is coming from. But at least for right now, it's looking a lot like this comet or ...