During its peak, you may see upwards of 50 to 100 meteors per hour if you're in a place where it's dark enough.

Small children like to imbue even ordinary objects with personalities, so they’ll have no trouble accepting the human nature ...

Mercury also has a tail that streams out behind it as it gets close to the sun, but is only visible with a special filter that shows the glow of sodium.

C/2022 E3 (ZTF), a comet that has recently made headlines as it flies closer to Earth, briefly developed an ethereal third tail thanks to a weird optical illusion.

The phenomenon, known as an anti-tail, is an optical illusion caused by the Earth's position in the comet's orbital plane.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is lighting up skies around the world. We take a look at some of the best photos taken from the ground and from space.

The unusually green-hued comet ZTF, also known as ZTF (C/2022 E3), developed a strange and rare tail yesterday, pointing toward our sun rather than trailing out behind it.

The “ comet of the century” that was likely last seen by the Neanderthals seemed to develop a physics-defying second tail as it reached its closest point to Earth in over 80,000 years.

A comet that has been on an 81,000-year journey to fly by Earth is finally arriving -- and should be visible in our skies in the upcoming days. The space rock — named Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan ...

We have known for a while that asteroid 3200 Phaethon acts like a comet. It brightens and forms a tail when it's near the Sun, and it is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, even though ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere as it makes its closest approach to the Sun this weekend.

We have known for a while that asteroid 3200 Phaethon acts like a comet. It brightens and forms a tail when it’s near the Sun, and it is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, even ...