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 ...

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 ...

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It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com noted could be the brightest comet of 2025. But there may be some obstacles in seeing the comet, according to reports. The Planetary Society ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...

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 ...

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to whiz past the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to spot the space spectacle from Earth Skyler Caruso is a Writer and ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...

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

In the real world, however, mass does not simply disappear - it has to go somewhere. In a comet's case, ice turns into gas ...

"It will be strongly heated and may not survive," Nick James, director of the British Astronomical Association's comet section, told Space.com. "But if it does, it may be an impressive object in ...

Astronauts witnessed the brightest comet of 2025 from space as it streaked across the sky above Earth. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who is ...