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Comets

April 2024

  • DevilCometpixie

    First Dog on the Moon
    The Devil comet! Will it crash into the Earth and destroy civilisation? Sadly, no

    Everyone loves the Devil comet

March 2024

  • A composite image of Canterbury Cathedral floodlit at dusk and the Milky Way photographed from Mount Olympus in Greece.

    Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust

  • Comet Pons-Brooks appears above Arundel Castle in West sussex.

    ‘Larger than Everest’ comet could become visible to naked eye this month

September 2023

  • Comet Nishimura, discovered less than a month ago, could be visible in Australian skies within days

    Newly discovered green comet Nishimura could be visible in Australian skies within days

    Astronomer says the best way to spot it will be at sunrise and sunset away from light pollution, but warns comets are unpredictable
  • Comet Nishimura in the night sky

    Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend

    Stargazers in the northern hemisphere get a once-in-437-year chance to observe the comet as it reaches peak visibility just weeks after being identified
  • Starwatch chart showing the view east from London at 5am on 10 September 2023

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Nishimura comet on course for a hi-vis flyby

    Discovered by an amateur astronomer in August, C/2023 P1 is likely to be visible to the naked eye this week

February 2023

  • An image of a green glow set against stars with a trailing tail of a gentle white glow

    The green comet: how to see a once-in-50,000-years event in Australia’s night skies

    The speeding C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and its icy tail will not be visible from most parts of Australia until 5 February – and won’t be visible again from Earth for a long, long time

January 2023

  • C/2022 E3 (ZTF), a rare green comet

    What is ‘the green comet’ and how can you see it?

    C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was last visible during the stone age so if you miss it this time you’re unlikely to get another chance
  • A rare green comet known as C/2022 E3 (ZTF), last seen around 50,000 years ago, is due to make its closest pass by Earth on 1 February 2023. Photo by: Dan Bartlett/Nasa/PA Wire

    Science Weekly
    How to spot the exotic green comet (and what might get in the way) – podcast

    This week star gazers will be hoping to catch sight of an exotic green comet that last passed by Earth 50,000 years ago. But, unlike the view our Neanderthal ancestors would have had, light pollution will make witnessing this celestial event an impossibility for many. Ian Sample speaks to astronomy journalist Dr Stuart Clark about how best to see the comet, and why it’s time to rethink our relationship with the night sky
  • The Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

    Exotic green comet not seen since stone age returns to skies above Earth

    Comet C/2022 E3, which orbits the sun every 50,000 years, will be closest to us next Wednesday and Thursday

October 2022

  • Starwatch chart Orionids meteor shower 21-22 October 2022

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Halley’s comet dust on show in meteor shower

    More than 50 meteors an hour may be seen as Earth ploughs through fragments left by comet

September 2021

  • Asteroid Hunters by a Telescope<br>Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker stand by the 18" Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. They use it to search for asteroids and comets that may come close to the earth's orbit. (Photo by Jonathan Blair/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Carolyn Shoemaker obituary

    American astronomer, leading asteroid hunter and co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which crashed into Jupiter

August 2021

  • Composite of 50 photographs taken near Hawes, North Yorkshire, over a period of 25 minutes shows meteors and star trails during the Perseid meteor shower

    Terrawatch
    Why don’t we see more meteorites after big asteroid belt collisions?

    Amount of cosmic debris reaching Earth has stayed surprisingly constant in last 500m years, say scientists

April 2021

  • Asteroid 2018LA makes an impact in Botswana, June 2018

    Asteroid’s 22m-year journey from source to Earth mapped in historic first

    Flight path of Kalahari’s six-tonne asteroid is first tracing of meteorite shedding rock to solar system origin

December 2020

  • The comet Neowise, pictured in March 2020.

    British engineers to start work on 'comet chaser' probe

    Mission will record details about the composition of the astral bodies and could be launched in 2028

October 2020

  • Starwatch chart 17 Oct Orionids meteor shower

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: how to see the Orionid meteor shower

    In the final week of British summer time, meteors from Comet Halley will be streaking across the night sky

July 2020

  • Comet Neowise, seen over Horton Tower, Dorset.

    Starwatch
    How to find comet Neowise, lying low in the northern sky

  • Neowise appears over Mount Washington, US.

    Comet Neowise's spectacular journey – in pictures

May 2020

  • Where, when and how to watch the 2020 Eta Aquarids meteor shower in Australia. A photograph of an Eta Aquarids meteor taken from Toowoomba, Queensland, 4 May 2020. The bright object to the right is Comet Swan. The picture was taken on an 82mm lens with a one minute exposure.

    Eta Aquarids meteor shower 2020: Australians told to look to the skies early Wednesday for best views

    This will be a good meteor show to see from the southern hemisphere, but you’ll need to be up early, experts say. See where, when and how to watch in Australia

April 2020

  • Artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua, an interstellar object that hurtled past our sun in 2017.

    Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua believed to be ‘active asteroid’

    Scientists believe cigar-shaped visitor to our solar system is fragment of a larger body
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