Bright comet could be visible without telescope for the 1st time in 80,000 years Astronomers hope that comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will be visible to the naked eye in the morning ...

A handful of larger sungrazing comets have been observed surviving their close pass by the sun, such as comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy in 2011. Initially discovered using a ground telescope ...

A recently identified comet is growing “brighter than expected” and could be the most impressive one of the year for ...

In work to defend the planet against asteroids, a Hawaii-based researcher has used a Haleakala telescope to spot a comet, which was recently named after her. Heather A. Flewelling, who has her ...

Nobody even knew Comet Neowise existed until a NASA space telescope discovered it approaching just three months ago. The spacecraft was scanning for asteroids and comets (balls of space ice and ...

TASS/. Leonid Elenin, a Russian astronomer and researcher at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics has discovered a new comet using an advanced telescope in Australia and his personally ...

The comet that was visible last week had the name ATLAS (C/2023 A3). This naming convention is based on who found it, when and using what kind of telescope. ATLAS stands for Asteroid Terrestrial ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...

The Geminids — the year's best, last and least talked about multicolored meteor shower — has started and could see up to 150 ...

The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 ...