The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024. Full Story: <a href=" Credit: NASA's ...

Q: How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn’t passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? Historically, long-period comets, which have orbits of more than 200 ...

The bad news is that the while the comet will be at its brightest on Sunday and Monday as it as its closest to the Sun, it also be lost in the Sun's glare. As it rounds the Sun it will come into view ...

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

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

The Space Coast could welcome a big player to the launch landscape tonight with the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. The NG-1 mission is targeting a 1 a.m. Friday liftoff from Cape Canaveral ...

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be ...

Advocates for limits on indiscriminate outdoor lighting that are increasingly obscuring night skies worldwide are recognizing ...

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time should spot many new "dark comets" after coming online in ...

On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.