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

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Keep your eye on the sky tonight. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. Monday, Jan. 13 is when the comet will ...

Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

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 ...

In the real world, however, mass does not simply disappear — it has to go somewhere. In a comet’s case, ice turns into gas when heated by the Sun, and that gas escapes into space (a process ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

As far as space events go, February offers a glimpse of Venus at its ... We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet ...

In the real world, however, mass does not simply disappear - it has to go somewhere. In a comet's case, ice turns into gas when heated by the Sun, and that gas escapes into space (a process called ...