Sightings of the comet are rare because it takes 71 years to orbit around the sun. Denise Chow is a science and space reporter for NBC News.

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A once-in-80,000-year sight will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend before heading into the vast abyss of outer space. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest approach to ...

Comet Nishimura has a hyperbolic orbit, which suggests that it may have come from outside the solar system and will likely be catapulted into interstellar space after slingshotting around the sun.

It doesn't have the name recognition of Halley's Comet, but this enormous snowball zipping through space has fascinated at least one astronomer night after summer night for its shape-shifting tail.

Now, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has been photographed on its journey around the sun by humans living in orbit in the International Space Station. The comet made its closest pass of the sun on ...

Nasa astronaut Matthew Dominick said the comet currently looks like a “fuzzy star” when viewing it from the International Space Station. “This comet is going to make for some really cool ...

This weekend will see a special visitor to the skies over our planet, as a 50,000-year-old comet will be passing ... Jorge Amaya from the European Space Agency’s Space Weather Office in a ...

Nasa astronaut Matthew Dominick said the comet currently looks like a “fuzzy star” when viewing it from the International Space Station. “This comet is going to make for some really cool ...