There are many famous mysteries from the Middle Ages that have kept us guessing. Such as the fate of King Edward II and the ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is "notoriously hard" to predict, but ...

When astronomers detected the first known interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, in 2017, it sparked a host of new studies trying to ...

The escaping material can cause significant changes in a comet’s orbit, acting like natural rocket engines, with the exact changes depending on the direction, speed, and amount of the escaping ...

The comet ATLAS, experts say, has a 1,60,000 year orbit around the Sun. It was discovered in April 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), hence the name. As for its origin, ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the perihelion of its massive, 160,000-year orbit through our solar system. The comet was only first ...

After a few weeks in the spotlight, the comets disappear only to return decades or centuries later, if at all. Moons and satellites that primarily orbit other bodies in the solar system ...