Meet comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN): a celestial body glowing green as it swings around the sun, currently visible in the early morning hours with backyard gear, such as small telescopes or binoculars.
There’s always another comet. Last year there was much ballyhoo over the so-called “devil comet,” some will-it-won’t-it drama of Tsunchinshan-ATLAS, and the sudden discovery (and quick demise) of a ...
Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids. When this meteor shower lights up the night sky, ...
The newest comet to create a buzz among sky watchers was spotted recently, and it will be coming closer to Earth in October - possibly giving us a better look at this once-in-a-lifetime visitor from ...
The European Space Agency is making use of spacecraft designed for Mars and Jupiter missions to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it continues its journey through our solar system. First spotted in ...
Hubble has captured the sharpest images to date of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, revealing new details about this icy alien traveller. The discovery of the third interstellar object passing through ...
A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...
3I/ATLAS, the rare comet currently making headlines as it travels through our solar system, made its closest approach to Mars on Friday. Thanks to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas ...
A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report. Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be ...