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 ...

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

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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 ...

A BRIGHT comet could be visible in the sky for the first time in 160,000 years - making it a real once-in-a-lifetime ... to pass Earth in 20 years. The space rock, formally known as G3 ATLAS ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...