Historically, the brightest comets often become known as “Great Comets”. The Great Comet of 1965 – C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) – ...

Scientists have discovered the largest comet in the Oort Cloud, a formation of icy bodies at the edge of the solar system. Recent observations found that this comet was bursting with activity, both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists estimate 3I/ATLAS's nucleus may weigh over 33 billion tons, making it a cosmic ...

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

This comet could be part of the Kreutz family and is expected to flare dramatically as it sweeps past the Sun.

We've only known about its existence for a few short weeks, and already astronomers have been able to learn a lot about the mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The object was detected on 1 July ...