The Michigan study examined seven dark comets and estimates that between ... But there's six of them at orbital distances around the earth and one has a longer orbit that crosses the asteroid ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on ...

Million of years in the past, a comet or an asteroid might have slammed into the Earth at an important time in its climatic history, scientists report in a new study. The extraterrestrial impact ...

You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 A3 ...

Its age and composition—rich in organic molecules—make it a prime target for study. The idea appealed to Drake ... come from within our planet or was it delivered to Earth by comets and asteroids? And ...

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s – the list of diseases linked to nighttime light exposure is getting longer.

ATLAS, celebrated as the “Comet of the Century” by skywatchers, recently dazzled observers with a brilliant and extensive ...

A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, will make its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. Sky-gazers won’t want to miss the event since it may be the last time the comet ...

30, 2024 — In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using ... star that rotates around its axis at an ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores the effects of ultralight dark matter in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals ...

There's still time to take some binoculars to a dark place away from outdoor lights to get a look at Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.

It's a big month for astronomers, as a major meteor shower sparks up the night and the "comet of the century" nears Earth.