NASA telescopes in Chile have discovered a comet from interstellar space, making its closest approach in October.

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get as close as 210 million kilometers (130 million miles) from the Sun, far beyond the orbit of Earth, ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Comet C/2014 UN271, aka Bernardinelli–Bernstein, is already releasing gas, even though it's still far from the sun's heat in the solar system.

Space may feel weightless, but its effect on oral health can be heavy. A new animal study shows that near-weightlessness speeds up gum disease – the kind that eats away at bone and can eventually ...

Here is a look at a few of the biggest stories: In April 2020 a shower in the constellation Serpens was traced back to the orbit of an unknown long-period comet. In April 2019, CAMS New Zealand ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was viewable in April. It earned the nickname " devil comet " in 2023 after it had undergone an outburst, allowing it to appear 100 times brighter and giving it horns like a ...

In 2015 comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy—seen here in a two-photo mosaic—neared the sun for the first time in millennia. Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought ...

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One simulation compared two comets—one with a 250-year orbit and one with a 4,000-year orbit. In both cases, the comets spent most of their time far beyond the big planets.

Convicted killer and recaptured prison escapee Grant Hardin, known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been transferred to the Varner SuperMax prison southeast of Little Rock, Arkansas prison ...