The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shed the building blocks of life as it flew past Earth last year, according to new data from NASA's SPHEREx space telescope. From its position in orbit, SPHEREx watched ...

The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days of our solar system's formation and holding clues about the origins of life ...

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is rapidly approaching Earth, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to spot the sparkly comet Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto via Getty Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) is ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This week brings a final chance to easily see Comet Lemmon ...

In my lifetime, I have seen a few spectacular comets, starting with Halley’s Comet in 1987. Ten years later, it was Hale-Bopp Comet which blessed our skies for nearly 18 months. More recently (2020), ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A brightening comet meets deep space on Friday morning — and ...