A comet will fly past Earth on New Year's Eve. No, it's not a sign of the apocalypse. If you're looking for an extra dose of fireworks this New Year's Even, look to the skies for the chance to see a comet that only comes around every five years. The comet — named Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková — is set to appear somewhere ne Read more ... ar the crescent moon on Dec. 31. It won't be visible

Rosetta's Comet Is Even Weirder Than We Thought If you thought a comet that contains the building blocks of life and creates its own weather couldn’t get any more interesting, think again. Scientists finally have a theory as to why comet 67P—also known as Rosetta’s comet—has two distinct l Read more ... obes. It’s actually two distinct comets, which break up, o...

What you need to know about Comet Catalina Here's how and when to witness this once-in-a-lifetime comet.

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This Comet Leaves Tons Of Alcohol And Sugar In Its Wake Comet Lovejoy gives off the equivalent of 500 bottles of wine per second.

This Comet Leaves Tons Of Alcohol And Sugar In Its Wake Comet Lovejoy gives off the equivalent of 500 bottles of wine per second.

Rosetta Sees Evidence Of Active Water-Ice Cycle On Comet 67P ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has spent the last year orbiting and studying a comet up close. Its target: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet 67P for short). Comets, just like any other body in the Solar System, have a day-night cycle. On Earth, ther Read more ... e are 24 hours in one day, but on Comet 67P the same…

Why Is This Comet Shaped Like A Duck? Last year, the ESA-led Rosetta mission made history by being the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and deploy a lander to its surface. The robotic probe has spent the last 12 months orbiting a comet – officially named Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenk Read more ... o, or Comet 67P for short – from varying altitudes,…

A Comet Throws Its Own Shade The folks at the European Space Agency released a new picture of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and I have to admit that it threw me. Huh. That’s the comet? Where’s the second lobe? For a second I thought we were just seeing it end-on, so that Read more ... the bi-lobed rubber ducky shape wasn’t...

Rosetta Finds Out Much About a Comet, Even With a Wayward Lander Photographs and data from the European Space Agency craft have provided an unprecedented close-up examination of a comet, 67P.