Here’s something that you’ll kick yourself if you miss – a comet that only grazes the Earth every 160,000 years will be visible thisweek. Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) was first spotted in April 400 million miles away when it was 158,
Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024), first spotted in April, is expected to be so vibrant that it will rival the brightness of Venus in the night sky .
Skies over South Carolina kick off 2025 with a planet parade, ancient comet and the muse of "Beyond Antares," a 23rd-century love song from "Star Trek" fame.
Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.
A celestial body recently discovered by a Chinese observatory has been confirmed as a comet by the International Astronomical Union IAU Astronomers
Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ATLAS comet.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an asteroid-comet hybrid called a ‘centaur’ that might not even be that. Asteroids are metallic rocks that form close to the sun, while comets are dirty snowballs thrown from the fringes of our star system.