A strange, city-sized comet seems to have woken up early as it drifts toward the sun — even though it's still much farther than Saturn in space. Using a giant Chilean desert telescope, the Atacama ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has not disappointed photographers. The photogenic comet is currently speeding away from ...

Comet C/2019 Y4 fell apart as it approached the sun in 2020. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to capture this photo of the comet's fragments. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and D. Jewitt (UCLA ...

Brenda Culbertson, Solar System Ambassador with NASA, told 27 News people looking up at the night sky in October might notice a new light burning in space. This is from the comet A3 Tsuchinshan ...

Credit: Taras Prystavski In recent months there has been a gradual build-up of excitement regarding the approach of a new comet with the moniker, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, cataloged officially as C/2023 A3.

3:27 p.m. Oct. 11, 2024A previous version of this article said that the comet was light-years away. The distance from Earth on Saturday will be about 44 million miles. And what, you ask ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. A comet that just skirted past our sun should light up the night sky this week. The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was only ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A bright and already visible comet is lighting up the pre-dawn skies over the Pacific Northwest. Comet C/2023 A3 is set to rise above the eastern horizon around 6:00 a.m ...

The comet will not come this close to Earth again for another 80,000 years or so, so get a peek while the peeking’s good. To get the best view, you’ll want to get away from the light pollution ...

Some people have seen Comet A3 with an anti-tail in front, much like the one seen in this 2023 image of Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF). © Kết Nối Việt Nam via Flickr Don ...

a fuzzy white streak of light in the sky above a large cactus-like plant Kevin McCarthy's persistence paid off, enabling him to catch this photo of the comet. "After days of trying, I finally was ...