The Solar System has a new confirmed comet, after repeated observations of candidate 456P/PANSTARRS showed it is an active, icy body. The object, discovered in 2021 and given the temporary name ...

The latest to be discovered, catalogued as 456P/PANSTARRS (meaning that it is the 456th periodic comet known, and was discovered by the Pan-STARRS project), is just the 14th main-belt comet to be ...

Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) or just Comet PANSTARRS, has graced our March skies. These are some of the images from the Sy at Night flickr site.

The main spacecraft will then head for main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS, which has asteroid-like orbital characteristics but also features comet-like activity. The two mission phases aim to provide ...