The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet is visible from the Northern Hemisphere this month—and won't be back for another 80,000 years.

New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling extra limb is the result of a rare illusion that is only possible when our ...

You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 A3 ...

Controversially, he also claims that the rapid shift in climate patterns was caused by a collision with a comet in what he calls the 'Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis'. '12,800 years ago the Earth ...

Atlas, a rare and bright comet, should be visible through October, weather permitting. The comet is expected to be visible to ...

The Oort Cloud is a theorized invisible spherical shell that surrounds the Sun.

In what has become a three-week streak of celestial phenomenon across the Idaho skies, residents can look up Tuesday night, and perhaps other nights this week, to see an ancient comet zooming past ...

Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was last month seen from Earth for the first time since the Neanderthals were alive, some 80,000 ...

at its closest distance to Earth. “For many people, and especially children, seeing a bright comet in the night sky is a beautiful and life-changing experience,” Kareta said. “Even if every ...

The last time it zoomed past the Earth was around 80,000 years ago, when the Neanderthals were still around. In its current approach, the comet reached its closest point to Earth on 12 October ...

Eager sky watchers are turning to the heavens as Comet NEOWISE ... about our origins. Dr. Mainzer likened its approach to a mission that collects samples and returns them to Earth, except ...

You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 ... rock and ice from the solar system's origin, according to NASA.