Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That's between the orbits of Mercury and Venus, or between 29 million and 67 million miles (47 million to 108 million kilometers), ...

Italian astronomers captured rare footage of Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS tearing itself apart in real-time. The comet's October 8 solar pass vaporized subsurface ice, creating gas pressure that cracked the ...

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Another comet, C/2025 A6 Lemmon, is possibly becoming bright enough to be visible to the naked eye in the coming days.(WTOP/Greg Redfern) A year ago, the D.C. region was enthralled with Comet A3 ...

From strong northern lights to a historic total solar eclipse, 2024 has been quite a year for sky watchers—and it’s not over. Starting Friday evening, a bright comet predicted to be visible to the ...

NEW YORK — Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. It should be visible ...

The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the morning. Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight for a few evenings, both ...

SALT LAKE CITY — NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent 286 days among the billions of stars that make up the universe. But you don't have to leave the planet to immerse yourself in the ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear. When you purchase ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun—on ...

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