The view was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 17 January 2016, from a distance of 86.8 km. Measuring 3.2 km across, it captures one of the most geologically diverse areas of ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, also known as C/2023 A3, is named after the observatories in China and South Africa that discovered it last year. The comet came from the Oort Cloud, well beyond Pluto, a ...

Peoria, Ill. – A comet discovered in 2023 will pass by Earth this weekend and become increasingly visible in Central Illinois over the next few days. The comet, now called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan ...

Right now, Comet C is swinging around between us and the sun making it tough to see. However, by October 12 or 13 th it will be far enough from the sun to be seen in the early evening sky.

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a "once in a lifetime comet" is in plain view of Utahns, due to a near pass of Earth that occurs once every 80,000 years.

The comet’s closest approach to earth was Oct. 11 or 12, and as it climbs higher in the sky each night, it will slowly fade from view. But there is still time to catch a glimpse of it.

Astronomers recently got a close-up look at the comet, known as C/2014 UN271, flying through deep space with the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile.

The comet was seen over the White Tank Mountains, in Peridot, Gold Canyon, Willcox and more areas across the state. "Though the comet is very old, it was just discovered in 2023, when it ...