In 2017, astronomers discovered the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua. In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar system ...

G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

January 13, 2025, the night sky offers a spectacle that comes once in a millennium. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a celestial ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

The comet could be amongst the brightest seen in our skies for 20 years, if the weather is good enough to see it. It will get ...

Planetary scientists typically measure the nongravitational accelerations of comets after detecting their cometary tails. Our team identified a class of small bodies in the solar system that take ...

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...