Comets are simplistically made of three components: The nucleus, the coma, and the tail (although there can be two tails).

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

That process creates their signature tails, millions-of-miles ... the rest of the month. As Comet ATLAS exits the sun's intense glare over the next day or two, it could become easier to spot.

Finally, just last month in 2024 — and just in time for the new year— we doubled the population of known dark comets and found that they come in two different flavors. Most excitingly ...

Within West River, there were ton of narrow decisions. The No. 3-ranked Comets survived Custer, while STM escaped Spearfish ...

Unlike last year's Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS which unfurled a magnificent tail for its evening apparition ... comet will be challenging due to two main factors: First, it will never ...

having a coma about two arcminutes across and a tail up to 18 arcminutes long. On 2 January 2025, it was reported that the comet experienced an outburst, estimating its magnitude to be 3.7 ...

It has a good chance of outshining the planets Venus and Jupiter and possibly become the brightest comet seen since about two decades ago ... forming a glowing coma and tail.

ANU astrophysicist Brad Tucker told Radio National on Wednesday to look about two o'clock from where ... frozen chunks of ice, the comet also gives off a stunning tail. "These comets are really ...