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 ...
Andrews’s article notes that the cause of the observed acceleration of some items passing through our solar system is unclear ...
A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...
NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...
Skywatchers, mark your calendars! The Chi Cygnids meteor shower, known for its five-year cycle, is expected to peak around ...
Stargazers will be happy to know that October will see the cosmos compensating for a couple of relatively lean months.There ...