The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

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

It is also the brightest of its kind since Comet NEOWISE, which was visible to the naked eye, even in large cities, back in 2020. NASA describes comets as “cosmic snowballs of frozen gases ...

The comet, called Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, is the brightest since comet NEOWISE passed by in 2020, seen with the naked eye even in city centers and areas with light pollution. Not only is this year’ ...

More recently the NEOWISE comet, visible in July of 2020, was named for its observing spacecraft Near Earth Object Wide-field Infared Survey Explore. Similarly this comet is named for the ...

In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.

In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.

The color comes from carbon in the gas cloud surrounding its nucleus, known as the coma. The comet wasn’t nearly as spectacular as NEOWISE was back in 2020, the brightest comet to come this way since ...

In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the 1990s, according to ...

In 2023, a green comet that last visited Earth 50,000 years ago zoomed by the planet again. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s.

The last big, bold comet was Neowise in 2020. It was visible to the naked eye and produced stunning photos such as this: ...