PASS IT ON! Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has an 80,000 year orbit & it's now approaching its closest pass to Earth. It will get higher in the early evening sky through October 21st.

Your unusual chance to see a comet in the sky is here. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers in 2023 — and will appear to the naked eye over the next couple weeks.

The comet, which will be visible to the naked eye, orbits the sun roughly once every 80,000 years—the last time it passed Earth humans were just migrating out of Africa. SCIENCE Here’s how to ...

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.

Comet A3 could be bright enough to see with naked eye 02:27. 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 ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a realm filled with frozen debris on the outer edge of our solar system. Initial observations suggest that the comet may orbit the sun once every 80,000 years.

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.

It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has enraptured astronomers ever since its discovery in 2021. The hulking object, sometimes jovially ...

When comet C/2024 G3 reaches perihelion, it will come within just 13.5 million kilometers of the sun—for context, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, orbits the star at a distance of 47 ...

A comet with potential to be brighter than Halley's will become visible beginning Saturday evening. Comet should be visible for two weeks in the western sky during twilight.

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.