On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

NASA observes largest Oort Cloud comet, C/2014 UN271, exploding with CO gas jets, thanks to ALMA’s deep-space capabilities.

A 15th-century copper plate from the Vijayanagara Empire has revealed India’s first direct mention of Halley’s Comet, proving the astronomical brilliance of ancient Indian scholars.

A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 ...

The latest ground-based observations from telescopes do seem to imply the comet has fallen apart, said Dr. Karl Battams, a computational scientist within the Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch ...

Subsequent observations confirmed that this was indeed an undiscovered comet, marked by its slight positional shift. Nishimura promptly reported his discovery to the Minor Planet Centre ...

there are signs that it's brightness (based on the Comet Observation Database/COBS) is slowly beginning to perk-up again during the first half of July. Telescopes reveal that the comet's dusty ...

For the past several days, Pons-Brooks has remained around magnitude 11.6 and 11.7, according to the Comet Observation database. Even better, the outburst created a fairly compact coma whose light ...

Currently, it displays the classic look for a bright comet, flaunting a starlike head and a prominent tail. As we crossed over from September into October, a consensus of observations reported on ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...