NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Keep looking; you may see a “shooting star” streak across the Orion constellation ... It's all about size. A comet is a snowball containing dust, gas and rock that orbits the sun, occasionally ...

Once again binoculars will be necessary. The outlet reported that the comet will look like a particularly bright star, and could have a short, stubby tail sticking off of it. Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS ...

The 2P/Encke comet fuels this one and it peaks a couple ... it may be tough to tell which meteor shower a shooting star comes from. This is especially true since Taurus, Leo, and Orion are all ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year ... Aug. 11-12 — Comet of origin: 109P/Swift-Tuttle — Zenithal Hourly Rate (ZHR): 100 (The number of meteors ...

If you see a shooting star, all you're actually looking at is ... shower is caused by Earth bumping into dust and debris left by Comet 8P/Tuttle, which was discovered in 1790.