A rare celestial event will take place tonight as Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) reaches its peak brightness tonight. The comet was ...

The comet could become as bright as magnitude -4.9 at its peak, meaning it may be visible during the day. However, because ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet Venus. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the ...

SpaceX has launched hundreds of its Starlink satellites over the past year, and in a post on X, Pettit describes ... to be graced with comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in October, which was ...

The new year will bring a total lunar eclipse on March 14. That’s the good news. The bad news is it begins at 12:19 a.m. and ...

SCORE, a trial communications satellite (4,000 kg), was sent aloft in late 1958 on an Atlas missile ... sock' explanation for the deflection of comet tails and accounted for the wave motions ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

the closest planet to the sun. However, these initial calculations also suggested that G3 ATLAS was a new comet coming directly from out of the Oort cloud, a vast bubble composed of countless ...

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) will reach its brightest on January 13, 2025, potentially outshining Venus and Jupiter. Detected in April 2024, its perihelion approach offers a rare viewing opportunity as ...

Discovered on April 5, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, G3 ATLAS was initially ...

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