Its time for one last look at comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ... is now on its way back there on a 80,000 years-long journey. It’s fading as it speeds away from the inner solar system, but rising ...
Comet C/2023 A3 — better known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — is fading in brightness as it speeds away from the Sun and Earth in the evening sky. It’s still visible to the naked eye in a dark sky ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
A rare celestial event is lighting up the night sky this month as Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas makes its closest approach to Earth for the first time in roughly 80,000 years. The comet, designated C ...
By next week it will be about 40 degrees above the horizon and about half as bright as it continues its journey out of the solar system. The comet and its tail are visible to the unaided eye under ...
BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...
The comet "... has almost certainly disintegrated. There's probably not much left of its primary core." The latest update concerning "the other comet" of October 2024 — Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS ...
WASHINGTON — A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week disintegrated before the ...
A once-in-many-lifetimes comet is zipping by Earth right now. Comet C/2023 A3 — known simply as Comet A3 — was first discovered last year and was first visible in the night sky earlier this ...
Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, has been in the evening sky for a week now. If you haven’t seen it, that’s understandable because there’s also been a bright Moon in the sky.