Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...
The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph aboard the Soho spacecraft captured the view of the comet as it flew with a giant tail that kept burning from the intense heat of the Sun.
A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the ...
It got within 140 million km on 14 January, but as it heads off again into the void of space, the southern hemisphere is best ...
An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.
An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.
It last passed nearby 180,000 years ago and the next few nights could be your last chance to ever see it as it drifts over ...
New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...
Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.
Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...
Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are visible this month in a 'planetary parade'. Dr Becky Smethurst at the ...
The best events these next two weeks are Venus attaining its highest sunset or nightfall elevation, Mars coming its closest ...