That's common for comets coming from the solar system's outer reaches. "Usually, they recover within a few days, but this could negatively affect the maximum brightness C/2023 A3 reaches in ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

In 2023, we reported the discovery ... But most excitingly, the Rubin Observatory coming online this year should discover many new dark comets. Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Survey ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Depending on how bright it becomes in the coming weeks, C/2022 E3 (ZTF) may even become visible to the unaided eye in dark skies toward the end of January. The comet can be distinguished from ...

It’s also critical to know that even when comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) gets closest to us on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (about 93 million miles/150 million kilometers distant) it will very likely be a ...

After an extraordinary year of watching full moons, eclipses, meteors and northern lights, a comet will be viewable right off the bat in 2025. It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com ...

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...