On04, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the ...

A Space Odyssey' fans, but the cosmic menace in the Gerard Butler disaster series has a more ordinary inspiration.

Ric Roman Waugh directs the sequel to his 2020 hit, with Gerard Butler returning to face the post-apocalypse on a ...

In the fall of 2023, Unistellar observers joined forces with the Association Française d’Astronomie (AFA) to take another close look at a familiar visitor: Comet 103P/Hartley 2. This tiny but famously ...

If you’ve not seen the two green comets yet, 90 minutes after sunset on Sunday, Oct. 26, is your last best chance before they fade. The brighter Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) and much dimmer Comet SWAN ...

We humans are a curious bunch. Whenever we come across something unfamiliar, our minds naturally start filling in the blanks about what it could be. That’s exactly what’s happening with comet 3I/ATLAS ...

On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly nine months later on March 14, 1986, Giotto became the first spacecraft to ...

In late April 2026, a long-period comet will swing through the inner solar system. It will likely be visible with binoculars, ...