Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

There are plenty of opportunities to catch a science show in the next few weeks. Over the next week, Comet A3, officially known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) will be visible as it journeys across ...

allowing scientists to extrapolate the streams and discover the parent comets. And while most LPCs are too faint for current observatories, the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST ...

If you spotted comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in person, or seen photos online this October, you might have been inspired to learn more about these visitors from the outer Solar System. Get ready ...

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28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final moments were captured by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

The reason they are called sungrazing comets is because they get very close to the sun, which results in most of them vaporizing before they can complete their orbit and return to outer space.

Now, thanks to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, we know for sure how and when comet ATLAS met its demise.

Any comet with a period longer than 200 years is known as a long-period comet, and these are the hardest to predict. Most long-period comets pose no threat to Earth.

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