Following its recent close encounter with the sun, Comet Lovejoy is offering an early-morning spectacle.

Sky watchers should get a heavenly treat Thursday and Friday nights (November 17-18, 2011) as the Leonid meteor shower streaks overhead on both of those nights.

We hear so much about the wonder of the Geminid meteors, but how do we see them in Australia?

The Geminid meteor shower will peak in 2010 on December 13th and 14th. Are you ready for around 120 to 140 meteors per hour? And, a mystery?

The WISE spacecraft took an important image of Comet Hartley 2. It will be used by the EPOXI spacecraft, which will fly by the comet in November 2010. Both missions are provided to you through the work of NASA.  

Comet 103P/Harley is a small periodic comet that will pass within 11.2 million miles of Earth on October 20, 2010. It is already a nice sight for people with backyard telescopes.  

The Comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) is making its first swing into the inner part of the Solar System. By mid June 2010, we should be able to get our closest look at the comet described with a “vivid green head and a long wispy tail.”

The Sun has been gobbling up comets lately. The latest one being a unexpected comet going to its demise early on the morning of Saturday, April 10, 2010.  

It's interesting what you can see when you have somewhere new to stand and look.  The SOHO probe launched by NASA and ESA recently observed a train of comets crashing into the sun.

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope may have photographed the debris left over after two asteroids collided. Although such asteroid-asteroid smashups do happen in the Solar System, such a collision has never been seen before by anyone on Earth.