In a race against time, clouds and the setting sun, photographer Josh Dury captured this dramatic photograph of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) at dusk on Jan. 15.
Comet Lovejoy was expected to vaporize but the 660-foot-wide rock was filmed making a great escape 'It was an extraordinary event' said one astronomer The comet came closer to the Sun than the ...
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...
Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...
Astronomers theorize that 2003 EH1, which takes about 5 ½ years to orbit the sun, is a dead comet that is now essentially a rock.
The comet passed and survived its closest point to the sun, known as perihelion, on Jan. 13, 2025. G3 (ATLAS) is "now moving away, and there are signs that the nucleus might have fragmented even ...
Comet ISON - called by some the "comet of the century" made its way around the sun tonight, but we aren't sure if it survived the trip or not. What happened to the chunk of rock and ice determines ...
The comet is a rare visitor to our cosmic neighborhood, orbiting our sun every 160,000 years or so ... England. "It was hit or miss to get this photograph; time was of the essence and running ...