Learn about a new Kreutz sungrazing comet that could be lighting up our skies come April 2026.

NASA’s PUNCH was tracking comet SWAN when 3I/ATLAS whizzed past. Credit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute ...

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...

This twist — that 3I/ATLAS' outer layers have been baked by the sun — does not derail our mission. It just makes the science more interesting. Astronomers are clever. They will find ways to peel back ...

In 1883, a comet capable of ending life on Earth narrowly missed impact. Only one man on the planet noticed, a Mexican scientist.

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

The Michigan State University Board of Trustees officially named its new engineering center and approved several campus ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2026 A1 (MAPS), has captured astronomers' attention with the potential for a spectacular cosmic ...

Astronomers are tracking a visitor called 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. The two previous instances were 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is ...

About sixty-six comet groups have been tentatively identified, of which there are fifteen that can be regarded as ...

Historically, the brightest comets often become known as “Great Comets”. The Great Comet of 1965 – C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) – ...

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