In October, a newly discovered comet will streak so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks with the naked eye — a spectacle that won’t happen again for more than a ...
It is comet season once again as three comets are nearing Earth in October. But not all of them will be visible to the naked eye. Two other comets will visit early next year, in 2026. Then, we also ...
Dark comets are a unique type of cosmic object. While they may look like asteroids, they are actually comets with unusual shapes and distinct characteristics.
I nterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to vanish from view. Earth and this interstellar interloper will be on opposite sides of the Sun for a little while. The glare of our star will be blocking the ...
October is a star-studded month with two meteor showers, winter constellations and a good chance to see a trio of green comets.
I f you’ve ever wanted to see a chunk of the early solar system with your own eyes, now’s your chance. The comet C/2025 A6, commonly called Comet Lemmon, is currently on approach with the inner solar ...
Stargazers will be happy to know that October will see the cosmos compensating for a couple of relatively lean months.There will be a whole bunch of celestial bodies to see over the next month, ...
New Delhi: Since the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) flagged the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas on 1 July 2025, the Earth has been moving away while the comet approaches the Sun.
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was discovered on Sept. 11 by amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly in images from NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). It is currently about 50 million miles from ...
The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.
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 ...
Comet SWAN isn't the biggest or brightest comet that can be seen from Earth, but it could be the last one until Halley's Comet comes back in July ...