A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.
The latter of these two scenarios is called a meteor shower, which can be easily observed with the naked eye in the right ...
Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.
G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...