Comet 3I/ATLAS is warming up as it approaches the sun, causing a jet to emerge. The jet is visible in a dramatic new image.
"We study cometary bodies because they act as time capsules, sealing in material from their formation billions of years ago." ...
A rare encounter of two comets this week will have stargazers in awe after nearly a year of no easily seen comets.
The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these ...
Comet SWAN has an estimated brightness of magnitude +6.1 (a measure of visual brightness), which, in a dark, moonless sky, ...
Two bright green comets are streaming through the skies and are visible to skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere. Both hail ...
Two ESA spacecraft, Hera and Europa Clipper, are poised to fly through the long tail of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a new ...
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...
Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...
Harvard scientist Avi Loeb warns that 3I/ATLAS could be an extraterrestrial “Trojan horse” whose presence has major ...