Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the ...

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

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

The Popular Astronomy Club meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Butterworth Center in Moline. All are ...

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

A meteor shower will peak in the skies over the UK this week as the Earth passes through the dust and ice tail of comet Encke ...

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but Tsuchinshan-ATLAS had by far the longest tail I have seen unaided. If you missed seeing it, you will have another chance in about 80,000 years. That makes it one of the long-period comets from the ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.