On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around 180,000 years and ...

If you’ve heard about comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (also called C/2023 A3 and Comet A3) you’ll want to find it in the night sky tonight and every night this week — so here’s how. The first rule of ...

On Feb. 4, green comet C/2022 E3 will become visible to the naked eye under clear skies. Comets like C/2022 E3 are assigned a numerical and alphabetical value through a series of standardizations.

A team of astronomers, spearheaded by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has successfully conducted groundbreaking radio observations of ...

It came from outer space. Interstellar space, to be precise. From somewhere beyond the influence of our sun, possibly from ...