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 ...

A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a ...

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 ...

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

Most of that brightness increase has been in the green part of the visible light spectrum, suggesting a “surge of gas production as the comet nears the Sun,” according to SpaceWeather. “The key ...

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 ...