BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

“Either nothing would be left over or there would be a dead hulk of material where an active comet used to be. But it’s starting to look like fragmentation may be more important. In Comet 332P ...

The comet, named 252P/LINEAR, appears to be spitting out a dust jet that is twirling like a sprinkler in space. This means that the small nucleus of the comet may be spinning, according to a ...

He spotted a definite comet shape in SOHO's latest images on April 1. The comet was later given the formal name SWAN25F in consequence. The glowing object is like a small green orb. That green ...

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 ...