For months, all eyes in the sky have pointed at the comet that’s zooming toward a blisteringly close encounter with the sun. The moment of truth comes Thursday — Thanksgiving Day. The sun-grazing ...

Comet ISON, shown here, was a sungrazing comet, or "star-grazer," that passed within roughly 730,000 miles of the Sun's surface in November 2013. — Wikipedia via ESA/Hubble A newly discovered comet is ...

An Iowa State University professor has plans for saving humanity from a devastating collision with an asteroid, and he’s hashing out the logistics with the help of NASA. Engineering professor Bong Wie ...

Scientists Friday are now saying that the comet ISON may have survived a close (in galactic terms) Thanksgiving fly-by of the sun, contrary to what most astronomers said Thursday night. According to a ...

We are now in the home stretch in the nearly four-month saga of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS). This is the make-or-break week for this object as it heads for its long-awaited rendezvous with the sun this ...

Both the Comet ISON and the International Space Station should be visible in the pre-dawn sky over the Triangle Monday morning. If you’ve not yet seen Comet ISON, you may be running out of time.

Comet ISON mostly fizzled out during its swing around the sun on Thursday, but it continues to puzzle astronomers who say remnants of the comet appears to be brightening up again. Earlier in the day, ...