2013 could be the year of the great comets. As Comet Ison heads back to deep space in 2014 the sky above it would begin to clear as the dust and gas geysers loose their energy. Returning to the ...

If ISON manages to survive its close encounter with the big fireball at the center of our solar system, the comet should be visible both day and night, for most of December 2013. At the very least ...

When Comet ISON was discovered in the autumn of 2012, scientists and amateur astronomers alike hoped for a “comet of the century.” On November 28, 2013, only 1.8 million kilometers would ...

Doubts emerged in April 2013, when the Hubble Space Telescope photographed ISON. Although the observing team could not measure the comet's nucleus directly, the researchers concluded that the ...

"So sorry, everyone, but comet ISON is dead. Its memory lives on." Battams and other scientists at the meeting pointed to a cascade of devastating evidence. Amateur astronomers using powerful ...

On NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign website, astrophysicist Karl Battams writes that ISON was "born 4.5 billion BC, fragmented Nov. 28, 2013 (age 4.5 billion yrs old)." Then he adds this ...

On NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign website, astrophysicist Karl Battams writes that ISON was "born 4.5 billion BC, fragmented Nov. 28, 2013 (age 4.5 billion yrs old)." Then he adds this wistful ...

published an obituary for the comet on Monday morning that made its end seem fairly official. “Tragically, on Nov. 28, 2013, ISON’s tenacious ambition outweighed its ability, and our shining ...

On NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign website, astrophysicist Karl Battams writes that ISON was "born 4.5 billion BC, fragmented Nov. 28, 2013 (age 4.5 billion yrs old)." Then he adds this ...

Comets will always surprise us—sometimes to our disappointment. It looks like comet ISON, or most of it, did not survive its encounter with the Sun yesterday, when it made a close approach at ...

Comet ISON may have survived Date: December 1, 2013 Source: NASA Summary: Continuing a history of surprising behavior, material from Comet ISON appeared on the other side of the sun on the evening ...