Largest comet ever discovered is heading towards the Sun. Nothing to worry about, though
The mammoth comet's approach will provide astronomers a unique opportunity to study the conditions of the early solar system.
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Crumbled comet helps researchers understand how their tails form
It roughly overlaps their wake through solar wind.
Interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov is the most pristine comet ever observed
The study of the untainted interstellar comet 2I/Borisov has allowed astronomers to compare material found in our solar system to ...
Amateur astronomer discovered a new sungrazing comet during last week’s eclipse
Sadly, it met its end in the Sun's corona.
Surprisingly enough, comets can generate auroras too — in ultraviolet light
Does this mean we can get a tan on a comet?
Hubble spots our second interstellar visitor — a comet
"It's traveling so fast it almost doesn't care that the Sun is there."
Newfound comet could be an interstellar object, experts argue
It's only the second time that astronomers have detected an interstellar visitor.
Comet-inspired reactor could create oxygen for astronauts
Comets seem to release molecular oxygen all the time -- and some scientists have recreated the process on Earth.
Astronomers spy self-destructing asteroid with a twin comet-like tail
A well-known asteroid is spectacularly disintegrating before astronomers' eyes.
What’s the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite?
The meteorite only lives as it is falling.
Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space
Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.
Key ingredient for life on Earth may have come from outer space
Phosphates forged in space made their way to Earth on comets and asteroid.
NASA’s brand new TESS telescope is already sending back impressive footage
Even before it actually started doing science, TESS sent back awesome footage of a passing comet.
Comet 67P harbors oxygen molecules as old as the Solar System
I wonder if it smells stale.
Pluto might have been formed by a billion comets
Pluto just got weirder.
Watch: real footage of cosmic particle ‘snow’ on comet 67P
Literally out of this world.
Biomarker molecule discovered “in abundance” around alien star, but still no life
Turns out, planet farts are just like ours, but with chlorine!
Hubble snaps the first binary-asteroid comet we’ve ever seen
Asteroids of a feather flock together. Sometimes into a comet.
Landslide spotted on comet for the first time using Rosetta’s images
Comets are far more geologically active than we thought.
Comet collision caused rapid carbon rise in ancient times
There may have been a bang.