The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...

The North and South Taurids are meteor showers that come from the breakup of a large comet about 10,000 years ago, says Bill ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com ...

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

Comet Encke was discovered by French astronomer Pierre F. A. Mechain on Jan. 17, 1786, according to NASA Science. Usually, comets are named after their discoverers or the observatory or telescope ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

"Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with and ...

Live updates from Monday night's NASA-SpaceX CRS-31 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...

Cancel anytime. The best is yet to come for sky watchers who want to see the long-tailed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Astronomers say it should put on a show the next few days. The comet Tsuchinshan ...