The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

In a remarkable demonstration of both the unpredictability of space and the extraordinary capabilities of modern astronomical detection, a small asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, recently made headlines ...

Shared on social media on Thursday, the image (top) shows Earth as a blaze of streaking light, an effect created by using ...

Stellar Stories Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS now a faint naked-eye object Moving across the constellation Ophiuchus in the evening ...

A meteor shower known for blazing fireballs is set to peak on Monday night into early Tuesday and could present a dazzling display for patient sky-gazers.

Both showers share the same parent source — originating from the debris of comet Encke. When rocks from space enter Earth’s atmosphere, the resistance from the air makes them very hot. This causes the ...

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ESA and NASA observers.

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Trick-or-treaters may get a “spooky” surprise in the skies Halloween night in the form of the Taurid meteor shower.

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

Gordon Johnston, a former program executive at NASA, said it’s not known whether the comet will become visible again from Earth, noting it will reach a point so close to the sun that the sunligh ...

The C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS cloud comet has been visible crossing Earth since mid-October ... he can be found on Instagram as josehrdz.art. More of Greg Reely's photography can be viewed ...