The April 8 solar eclipse is a gift that keeps on giving. You may also be able to see planets, and even a "devil comet" — in ...

Recent observations collected on the Comet Observation database (COBS) suggest that, on Jan. 2, 2025, G3 ATLAS experienced a sudden outburst, showing a nearly four-fold increase in apparent ...

By then, however, the comet's close proximity to the sun was making ground observations increasingly difficult as the comet's altitude was placing it progressively closer with each passing morning ...

"The thermal stress may have been too much." The latest development is surprising, considering that initial observations of the comet after perihelion suggested it had remained unaffected by its ...

the time at which the comet is close to the sun. Each observation of a comet position gives two co-ordinates, right ascension and declination; and hence to determine the five -elements ...

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

STEREO’s observations highlight the streaky appearance of the comet’s tail. A processed image from STEREO makes the tail really pop. “I think the remarkable thing is the heavily striated ...

SHANGHAI -- Chinese scientists have attributed the sudden movement of a boulder on the surface of a comet to a phenomenon ...

The comet at the time was a magnitude 19 object about 4.38 AU (655 million km) from Earth. Further observations indicated it had a diffuse coma about 4.5 arcseconds across and a straight tail.

THE new comet discovered in July by Dr. William R. Brooks, director of the Smith Observatory, Geneva, N. Y., is now visible to the naked eye, and in a very favorable position for observation on ...

PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:'Halley collated tables of all the comet observations he could find, 'looking for similarities in their behaviour. 'What direction they came from. 'How close they got to the sun.