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Climate scientist and Netflix 'Don't Look Up' director talk comet metaphors and global warming (exclusive)
Adam McKay, creator of Netflix's popular satire-comedy movie "Don't Look Up," and climate scientist Kate Marvel talk why the world needs more films like the comet metaphor movie.
Comet Leonard puts on a final, spectacular display with ion tail in solar wind
Comet Leonard is falling out of view, but not without putting on one last show.
Rosetta's 'rubber ducky' comet makes closest approach to Earth, will disappear for 200 years
Comet 67P, which famously hosted the first-ever cometary lander in 2014, made its closest approach to Earth on Friday (Nov. 12).
Mysterious glass in the Atacama Desert may be from an ancient exploding comet
An ancient comet may have burnt sand into mysterious pieces of twisted glass, according to a new study.
This mysterious comet's super-bright outbursts have astronomers puzzled
One of the strangest comets in the solar system has been erupting with unpredictable bright outbursts since late September and nobody knows why.
After 3.5 million-year hiatus, the largest comet ever discovered is headed our way
Scientists have analyzed the enormous Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, and predict it will come within 11 AU of Earth in the next 10 years.
The 'megacomet' Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade. Here's the discovery explained.
The scientists that found Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein are an unlikely pair.
Interstellar comets visit our solar system more frequently than thought
Comets from other star systems, such as 2019 Borisov, visit the sun's neighborhood more frequently than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.
