Space is filled with thrilling things to see, from full moons to eclipses, meteor showers and comets, each offering their own distinctive spectacle. And 2025 will be a good year to see comets.

"Hale-Bopp has been a favorite of comet studies in part because it was one of the brightest comets seen." Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules ...

Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his Unistellar EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its beautiful tail across the sky. These past couple months, ...

A mysterious volcanic comet has just reawoken, unleashing four major eruptions in less than 48 hours and spraying out enough of its icy guts to make the city-size object appear almost 300 times ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows. Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram ...