BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

Photographers have captured a comet in the skies above East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Comet A3 was first spotted in January 2023 at the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China. Since 12 October ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on ...

Is the comet still visible? Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is no longer a naked-eye object, but if you have binoculars or a small telescope, it’s still worth finding. This long-period comet from the ...

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. I saw and photographed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) last night. Having emerged from the sun's glare, Friday, Oct.