The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was that rare type of comet that arrived with fanfare and lived up to the hype, serving up naked-eye views ...

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

This spring, skywatchers have been treated to the captivating and unpredictable display of a new comet, called C/2025 F2 ...

To the astronomers observing it, the planet looks like a huge comet with a long tail of debris. That tail stretches nearly 6 million miles long, encircling about half the planet’s entire orbit. The ...

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS also sported a stunning tail stretching up to 15 ... Credit: Hao Liu Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS owes its name to two observatories that discovered it independently.

The researchers estimate the planet will disintegrate entirely within one to two million years ... the starlight’s return came from its comet-like tail. BD+05 4868 Ab is only the fourth ...

The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust ... indicating a long tail behind the planet. That formation proved to be ...