A comet from another star will swing by our sun Dec. 8. Known as 2I/Borisov, it is the first comet to ever be seen coming from interstellar space. But despite its alien origins, astronomers say it ...

Astronomer Doug Durig waits in darkness for images of the celestial object 2I/Borisov, a comet from another star, on Oct. 3, 2019, in Sewanee, Tenn. Washington Post photo by Sarah Kaplan ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A possible "great comet" is approaching Earth. Could the shooting star join 2024's list of nighttime spectacles? Some speculate that Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be the next great comet ...

A comet last visible by the naked eye when Neanderthals roamed the Earth should be so again in South Carolina skies soon. The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is passing through the inner solar system and ...

Not so easily dismissed, however, is the possibility that the Star was a bright comet. Such objects can remain visible to the unaided eye for weeks either in the predawn sky or at dusk.