On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

NASA shares images of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) near the sun and stunning photos from Jupiter and Mars missions.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Do the periods of comets decrease because they lose mass every time they get near the Sun? Robert BaileyConover, Wisconsin ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Skies over South Carolina kick off 2025 with a planet parade, ancient comet and the muse of "Beyond Antares," a 23rd-century love song from "Star Trek" fame.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for biosignature studies," according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

it will also pass in front of the more-brilliantly-red-than-usual Mars in an event known as a lunar occultation. But that’s not all January’s sky has to offer. A new comet, expected to be the ...