The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph aboard the Soho spacecraft captured the view of the comet as it flew with a ...

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet ...

NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were launched ...

The sun might burn the comet up, making us the first, last, and only humans to ever see it. But if the ball of space ice survives its fiery flyby, it will reappear in the Southern Hemisphere at ...

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final moments ...

This comet is located in the asteroid belt between ... several space agencies plan to perform exciting deep-space flyby missions in 2025. A flyby, or gravity assist, is when a spacecraft passes ...

With a bit of luck, possibly the brightest comet of the year could be seen in Germany shortly after sunset.

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.

but later observations suggested that the comet is taking a different path that will allow it to survive and perhaps even remain intact for a flyby of Earth. This new orbit, which takes 160,000 ...