Comet ISON has taken the summer off, hiding from the eyes of Earth-based telescopes in the constellation Gemini the Twins. Not only does the comet remain faint, but it's in the same area of the sky as ...

Holy carbonated comets Batman! NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took a look at Comet ISON on June 13 and observed a gassy atmosphere created by frozen carbon dioxide ice slowly fizzing away in sunlight.

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The Comet ISON appears to have survived after disappearing and being thought dead. New NASA photos show the comet emerging from behind the sun smaller and dimmer, but still throwing a big light trail.

A potentially bright comet will be visible  in November and December. Russian amateur astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok found the comet in images taken by the International Scientific ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers slated to meet this week to discuss observing plans for Comet ISON may not have much to talk about. The so-called "Comet of the Century" may already ...

A workshop will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., on Aug. 1-2, 2013, to maximize the scientific opportunities and data gathered during the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old. The comet, which excited ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A comet is heading for a close encounter with the sun later this month, and if it is not vaporized or torn apart, it should be visible to the naked eye in December.

In a reversal that would make a comic book writer blush, scientists seem ready to resurrect Comet ISON after its untimely Thanksgiving demise. Over the holidays, NASA brought leading astronomers ...

If the comet ISON makes it out intact from its encounter with the Sun this week, the Earth is in for a potentially dazzling sight in the December night skies as it passes close to Earth and out ...