Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...

Earlier this year, comet C/2014 Q2, also called Comet Lovejoy, passed close to Earth, making it one of the brightest comets in the night sky at that time. This photo was taken by 15-year-old ...

Astronomers believe that these Kreutz Path comets are all the remains of a much larger comet that disintegrated sometime in the past. The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec. 2011, ...