BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

further deepening the mystery of why these objects look like asteroids but behave like comets. Of late, the dividing line between asteroids and comets has become blurred. There are "main-belt ...

It's hard to really see what a comet is like because comets are extremely small. Here's what 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko looks like from Earth: But as soon as Rosetta rendezvoused with the space ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. I saw and photographed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) last night. Having emerged from the sun's glare, Friday, Oct.

Scientists have discovered seven more "dark comets," and analysis of this haul suggests that the puzzling planetoids are divided into two distinct families, further deepening the mystery of why these ...

These celestial objects are known as "dark comets," which are astronomical objects that look like asteroids but strangely move through space like a comet. These odd objects were first discovered ...

Do you know where to look for the comet? See two sky charts below explaining two different techniques of locating comet A3. Now 91 million miles (146 million kilometers) from Earth and shining at ...

In fact, it kind of looks like a comet now, NASA discovered when the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a new image of the distant space rock. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...

The first dark comet—a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet—was reported less than two years ago. Soon after, another six were found. In a new ...