New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

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 ...

Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is scheduled to have its first light on the Fourth of July 2025. This new year should bring with it lots of new dark comets along with ...

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

Astronaut Don Pettit even snapped a picture of the comet zipping along the horizon from the International Space Station. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying ...

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 ...

As far as space events go, February offers a glimpse ... We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in space history don't miss ...

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

2025 could be a record-breaking year in terms of discovering new dark comets. Most excitingly, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is scheduled to have ...

People in the northern hemisphere will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars during the planetary parade. The next full moon will happen on Feb. 12. Known as the ...