Shoemaker, and David Levy and was the first comet ever known to orbit a planet and not the Sun. It had been captured by Jupiter, 20 or 30 years earlier, orbiting the planet every two years.

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

NASA shares images of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) near the sun and stunning photos from Jupiter and Mars missions.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

NASA estimates there are billions of comets orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt - a region of the solar system home to Pluto - and the more distant Oort Cloud. Dr Shyam Balaji, a researcher in ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, unveiling its unique dual nature as both asteroid and comet. The research ...

how long comets take to make one revolution around the Sun, or a cometary “year” — according to basic physics, the period of an object does not depend on the mass of that orbiting object ...

Science enthusiasts are hoping to get a glimpse of a comet that’s supposed to be the brightest of 2025, but they may be out of luck depending on where they are in the world. The comet ...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/SMA/ L. Matrà et al. Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 alien star systems, revealing not only the existence of trillions of icy exocomets, but also the ...