Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

Other than being a ‘Trojan Horse’ alien spaceship set to release probes to study our planet, or crashing into Earth, neither ...

There is no evidence to support the idea that this interstellar object is anything but a comet, but let's double-check.

Halloween is upon us and the 2025 spooky season is abuzz with talk of three cosmic visitors — Comet Lemmon, Comet SWAN and the interstellar traveler 3I ATLAS — said to be haunting the night sky. But ...

Full Supermoon . See the biggest and brightest moon of the year—the full supermoon—on the evening of Nov. 5. The moon will officially reach its fullest state at 8:19 a ...

Astronomy enthusiasts are being offered an extraordinary opportunity tonight - the chance to witness a comet that won't grace ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

In July 2025 a curious visitor entered our Solar System: the interstellar object dubbed 3I/ATLAS. Unlike typical space rocks that circle the Sun and behave like known comets or asteroids, this one has ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an ...

Comet Lemmon continues to be the go to object for telescopes and binoculars across the region as it sweeps its way above the northwest horizon.

While the Orionids aren’t the most prolific meteor shower of the year, they are incredibly fast movers. They enter the atmosphere at about 41 miles per second (about 150,000 miles per hour), heating ...