The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids ...

New findings by scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shed light on this hybrid of comet and asteroid, revealing unprecedented insights into its surface chemistry and activity. The ...

(KRON) — Heavenly Mountain Resort is investigating an incident that occurred on its Comet Express chairlift on Monday morning. Officials confirmed that five people were hospitalized.

A spokesperson for the Lake Tahoe-area resort said the following, “Heavenly Mountain Resort can confirm an incident occurred on its Comet Express chairlift today, Monday, December 23 ...

Are you ready for one final look at the brightest comet for over a decade? After wowing sky-watchers in September and October, comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is fading out in the night sky ...

Photo credt: TGIFaanes via Reddit Comet Express Chair is on the right side of the map Photo credit: xamfed via Reddit UPDATE: Witnesses of Monday’s incident at Heavenly’s Comet Express ...

Because they move closer to the sun, solar heating can cause certain ices to sublimate, forming a gaseous halo or coma around the centaur, a bit like a comet. Charles Schambeau of the University ...

By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London In a new London production of Dave Malloy’s Tolstoy-inspired pop opera, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” the stage is featureless but for ...

Was it a comet? Santa doing a test run? Or perhaps, something else? The trail is seen clearly in this video sent in by WAFB viewer Montrice Davis. There is no official determination as of late ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with a tail, like a gigantic comet. The planet, known as WASP-69b, is slowly evaporating in the radiation of its host star. WASP-69b is a gas giant that ...

Then, there is comet Hyakutake. Discovered only in 1996, this comet’s passage near the Earth in the same year was one of the closest cometary approaches in nearly 200 years. We will be turning ...