I/Atlas comet, which is 40 times brighter at present, will reportedly be struck by a CME released on September 19, 2025.

A man who built his own telescope and takes images of the planets with it that would rival those taken by the best professional observatories only a few decades ago shocked the world last week with ...

Composite images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 orbiting Jupiter in 1994. In 1993, three sky watchers — Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy — discovered a comet orbiting Jupiter. In their honor, it ...

Harvard researcher Avi Loeb says comet 3I/ATLAS weighs 33 billion tons and spans 3.1 miles, making it far larger than previous interstellar visitors.

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object ...

Stargazers will be happy to know that October will see the cosmos compensating for a couple of relatively lean months.There ...

Long-period comets move on much wider orbits than the Jupiter-family comets and are much more loosely held by the Sun's gravity. "We found that long-period (Oort Cloud) comets often crumble into sizes ...

It’s hard to believe that we’re already saying goodbye to January. As we do, there is plenty to look forward to in February, especially for skywatchers. As far as space events go, February offers a ...

In spectacularly good timing a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun is about to collide with an object which came from outside of the Solar System. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object ...