The comet brightened pretty quickly, and it now has a magnitude of +7.8 – not bright enough for our own eyes, but visible ...

S1 (ATLAS) has met its demise after traveling too close the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) ...

Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 will reach perihelion on January 13. If you thought a meteor shower and four-planet conjunction was it for celestial excitement this month, you thought wrong. Even though we ...

Skywatchers throughout the Northern Hemisphere are enjoying views of the newly discovered Comet SWAN.

Stargazers are anxiously waiting to see if Comet Atlas brightens in the night sky to become one of the greatest comets in a century. Or not. While Comet Atlas is still visible only with a ...

Last year there was much ballyhoo over the so-called “devil comet,” some will-it-won’t-it drama of Tsunchinshan-ATLAS, and the sudden discovery (and quick demise) of a third comet that failed to meet ...

What you're seeing here is the Great Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a comet discovered in 2024 that lit up the night sky late in that year and early 2025, and was the brightest comet in 18 years when it ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered in January 2023 after Tsuchinshan Observatory in China spotted it, which was later independently detected by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...

A newly discovered comet is fascinating astronomers and amateur stargazers alike as it remains a brightening feature in the northeast night sky.

Timelapse video captured on 12 October by the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii shows the Tschinshan-ATLAS comet passing by Earth. A special live stream was launched from the ...

Minor Planet Center officially designated comet SWAN25F as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) on April 8. SWAN is an instrument particularly designed to study the Sun ...