Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) at 3:25 a.m. Wednesday morning, May 19 at the start of dawn from Duluth, Minn. The photo conveys how small the comet appeared in binoculars and also captures its blue-green ...

There’s a new comet in town and scientists hope it could become visible to the naked eye in the next couple weeks. Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo first spotted Comet SWAN in April thanks to data ...

This morning (April 29) the large and bright asteroid 1998 OR 2 will safely zip past Earth at a distance of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million km), equal to 16 times the distance to the Moon. While ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle. Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has ...