A team of scientists has discovered that WASP-69 b, an exoplanet, possesses a comet-like tail of gas stretching up to 563,000 kilometers into space. The tail forms as the planet gradually loses ...

How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn't passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? You look for its footprint. "This research gets us closer to defending Earth ...

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From May 2025, the Barbican Centre, London, will partner with Fondation Giacometti, Paris, for a series of three groundbreaking exhibitions taking place over the course of a year.

The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles is presenting Van Gogh’s famous “cosmic poem” Starry Night (Arles, September 1888), one of the masterpieces in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay.

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 began life in a small New York non-profit theatre a decade ago, staged as a wild immersive party by Rachel Chavkin. Then it soared to Broadway ...

The Geminids originate from a rocky asteroid called 3200 Phaethon with a comet-like orbit and were first observed in 1862. Dr Minjae Kim, a research fellow in the physics department at the ...

Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminid meteor shower doesn't originate from a comet, but from an asteroid. Astronomers theorize that the asteroid, 3200 Phaethon, could be what's known as a "dead ...

It has long been assumed that the gases of a comet tail are pushed away from the comet by the pressure of light from the sun. It now appears that many tails are caused by a wind of charged particles ...

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets. By Holland Cotter Jason Farago and Walker Mimms ...