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Comets

Vin Diesel Riddick

Comet Nishimura Won’t Be Back for 435 Years, See It Before It’s Gone

The age of discovery continues!
By Cassidy Ward 1 week ago
A still image of a big wave approaching two people embracing on a beach in Deep Impact (1998)

Deep Impact Turns 25: Looking Back at Sci-Fi Disaster, 1990s Style

Remembering when President Morgan Freeman gave the planet some seriously bad space news.
By Benjamin Bullard 3 weeks ago
The Expanse Asteroid Belt screenshot

Bizarre Asteroid Belt Object Could Contain Water From the Birth of the Solar System

Every time we make a category, something comes along to break it.
By Cassidy Ward 4 months ago
Asteroid Vs. Earth

New Observations Reveal the Bizarre Origin of the Asteroid Phaethon and the Geminids Meteor Shower

Things are weirder than we imagine.
By Cassidy Ward 4 months ago
Resident Alien Season 2 Episode 12

‘Oumuamua’s weird motion has an explanation, and it isn’t aliens

Unless...
By Cassidy Ward 5 months ago
Comet

A comet is about to pass by Earth for the first (and last) time in 50,000 years

Don't forget to wave.
By Cassidy Ward 8 months ago
The Ark

Astronomers detect a mysterious glow around the solar system

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
By Cassidy Ward 9 months ago
Artwork depicting a frozen object like an asteroid or comet in deep space. Credit: Getty Images / Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library

A comet got really close to the Sun and completely freaked out

It literally blew chunks.
By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Hubble Space Telescope image of the largest known comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)

The biggest comet ever seen shows off its hair for Hubble

UN271 is ~137 km across, bigger than any other object like it ever seen.
By Phil Plait 1 year ago
The asteroid Ryugu from 20 kilometers away. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu and AIST

Is Ryugu a dead comet masquerading as an asteroid?

The near-Earth object looks like an asteroid but may be an ice-free comet
By Phil Plait 1 year ago
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