Comet Catalina suggests icy visitors may have been sources of carbon on Earth

During the earliest years of planet Earth, as our world was still forming, icy comets were essential sources of carbon that may have kick-started life, a new study claims. University of Minnesota astronomers have taken infrared observations of Comet Catalina, a comet that visited our solar system in 2016, to undertand whether comets played a … Read more

Harvard physicist believes Oumuamu is an alien craft, NOT a comet

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is not shy about his idea that Earth’s 2017 interstellar visitor being an extraterrestrial craft and is set to release a book to defending his claim with more detail. The book, titled ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,’ argues the consensus that Oumuamu is not a comet or … Read more

Gerard Butler races against time to save family from apocalypse-causing comet in Greenland trailer

Gerard Butler races against time to save his family from apocalypse-causing comet in Greenland trailer By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 02:15 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 02:15 GMT, 10 December 2020 Advertisement A new trailer for Gerard Butler’s apocalyptic adventure Greenland dropped Wednesday ahead of its December 18 Video On Demand release.  In … Read more

Interstellar visitor Oumuamua is a ‘dust bunny’ formed from particles inside a comet, experts say

Interstellar visitor Oumuamua may be a ‘dust bunny,’ according to experts who say it formed from particles inside an Oort cloud comet and broke off due to hydrodynamic stress Oumuamua, spotted in 2017, is Earth’s first interstellar visitor The discovery has raised many questions, primarily focused on its origins  Experts now say it formed similar to … Read more

Hubble telescope captures close-up image of comet Neowise after its journey around the Sun

Hubble telescope captures close-up image of comet Neowise after its journey around the Sun showing its solid nucleus has remained intact  Neowise is the brightest comet visible in the northern skies since Hale-Bopp It passed closest to the Sun — at 27 million miles distance — on July 3, 2020 NASA have now released shots … Read more

Interstellar comet Borisov DID survive its closest approach to the Sun

Interstellar comet Borisov DID survive its closest approach to the Sun in its journey through the Solar System – but partially broke apart in the process Astronomers say the comet ‘partially broke up’ as it reached inner solar system  They plan to study the material it left behind to find out more about its makeup  … Read more

Bizarre ‘asteroid’ with a TAIL of gas spotted orbiting the Sun ‘a simple comet’

Bizarre ‘asteroid’ with a TAIL of gas spotted orbiting the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter turns out to be a comet ‘in disguise’ The asteroid was first spotted in 2019 and the tail was confirmed in April 2020  2019 LD2 is letting off gas which is trailing behind the space rock like a … Read more

Hubble space telescope captures incredible images of comet ATLAS shattering into dozens of pieces 

The Hubble space telescope has captured the clearest images yet of comet ATLAS and found it has shattered into dozens of pieces each at least the size of a house. The comet was discovered by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) robotic astronomical survey system in Hawaii in December 2019. It became incredibly bright … Read more

Interstellar comet Borisov is surrounded by a poisonous cloud of carbon monoxide

Borisov, a comet from another star system, was surrounded by a cloud of poisonous ice that had to have formed in a region of space colder than anything known to man. Researchers from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center found that it must have formed in the outer edges of its original star system – known … Read more

Mysterious comet TWICE the size of Jupiter is set to light up the night sky

Atlas, a massive comet five times the size of Jupiter and about half the size of the Sun, will appear brighter than Venus from Earth by the end of April. The exact size of the rocky icy core of the strange comet isn’t known but is likely only a few miles across – but it … Read more