On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 ...

While we haven't seen an interstellar comet being struck by a coronal mass ejection before, we have seen it happen to others. This happened on April 20, 2007, when NASA's STEREO A spacecraft saw Comet ...

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

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

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 ...

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

How old is interstellar comet 3I/Atlas? How do we know it is coming from interstellar space? Will it hit Earth? What is its ...

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.

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A comet named 3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will open this fall for public viewing on Thursday evenings, 7:30-9:30 pm, weather permitting. You can follow activities on Instagram@keebleobservatory ...