There are many famous mysteries from the Middle Ages that have kept us guessing. Such as the fate of King Edward II and the ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

The orbit of Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) is an extremely elongated ellipse, according to the latest computations by Japanese astronomer Syuichi Nakano, who used 285 positional observations from April 5 ...

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

The escaping material can cause significant changes in a comet’s orbit, acting like natural rocket engines, with the exact changes depending on the direction, speed, and amount of the escaping ...

When astronomers detected the first known interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, in 2017, it sparked a host of new studies trying to ...

C/2024 G3 comes from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of comets around the solar system. Comet ATLAS G3 is thought to orbit the sun every 160,000 years, making it a very long-period comet.

After a few weeks in the spotlight, the comets disappear only to return decades or centuries later, if at all. Moons and satellites that primarily orbit other bodies in the solar system ...

Scheeres teamed up with colleagues from CU Boulder, Purdue University and several other institutions to discover that the bodies of some comets that orbit the sun may split and reunite in a repeating ...