"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory may shine a lot of light on dark comets when it comes online this year. 2025 could be a record-breaking year in terms of discovering new dark comets. In 2017 ...

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

Researchers have found that a space object called Chiron has traits like both an asteroid and comet. William Gonzalez ... high-powered Webb telescope “has made it accessible” to analyze ...

As comets approach the center of the Solar System, they send off trails of gas and dust. (Credit: Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi) There aren’t many comets that are visible to observers without binoculars or ...

Skywatchers of Arizona might not have to wait long to see the first comet of 2025. Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3, also known simply as Comet G3, is currently headed toward the sun on its 160,000-year trip ...

Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all ... Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found ...

This comet reaches perihelion at 0.094 Astronomical Units (AU, 8.7 million miles or 14 million kilometers, interior to the orbit of Mercury) from the sun on January 13th, and "may" top -1st ...

The comet was seen from the International Space Station over the weekend A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years.