The source of the shower is periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Discovered by astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle in July ...

The Perseid meteor shower is considered the best of the year due to the 50 to 100 meteors viewers can see per hour.

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

Massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, larger than Manhattan, shows unusual glow pattern and planetary alignment that Harvard ...

A cosmic visitor is stirring up an earthly debate. A Harvard University astrophysicist has suggested the incoming ...

This new measurement suggests some comets — particularly those such as 12P/Pons-Brooks — could indeed have delivered water, and possibly other life-essential elements, to a young Earth.

Hubble’s clearest view of comet 3I/ATLAS shows a dusty coma and faint tail from a rare interstellar traveller.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared remarkable new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which was ...