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 inscription from Srisailam reveals India's first epigraphic Halley`s Comet sighting, dated June ...

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 newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), ... EarthSky has reported that recent observations suggest the comet completes one orbit around the sun every 2.1 million years.

Another observation of the comet was made on April 11 by the Virtual Telescope Project. ... A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated.

The Comet Observation Database (COBS) expects the Nishimura Comet to exhibit an apparent magnitude of up to 3.0, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye.

When comet C/2024 G3 reaches perihelion, it will come within just 13.5 million kilometers of the sun—for context, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, orbits the star at a distance of 47 ...

The comet will appear during totality in April 2024. ... For the past several days, Pons-Brooks has remained around magnitude 11.6 and 11.7, according to the Comet Observation database.

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 ...

While some comet experts think Comet Tsunchinchan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) will "soon be no longer," others think it's doing just fine.