An artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of ...
No two comets are exactly alike. Of course, they can appear similar. Two decently bright comets that share a superficial resemblance are gracing our skies right now, in fact: C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and ...
Could Mars have just stolen Earth’s front-row seat to one of the rarest cosmic events in decades? In early October, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the MAVEN spacecraft, and the Perseverance ...