The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series. Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest 'Totally amazing' astronaut ...

Astronauts witnessed the brightest comet of 2025 from space as it streaked across the sky above Earth. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who is ...

There’s a lot of stuff in space that we know is there but we can’t see very well or at all. Some of this stuff is known as mysterious dark matter, others are things like dark comets ...

We like to think of ourselves as a species that understands a lot about the Universe. Sure, we're far from knowing everything there is to know, but our current level of knowledge is enough to make ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

As far as space events go, February offers a glimpse ... We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann ...

Space is filled with thrilling things to see, from full moons to eclipses, meteor showers and comets, each offering their own distinctive spectacle. And 2025 will be a good year to see comets.

Veteran astronaut Don Pettit most recently spent five months in space and captured remarkable images. He’s taken nearly a ...

This October will see a once-in-80,000-year event, when Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS passes by Earth. First spotted in 2023, the comet (technically called C/2023 A3), which has been billed the “comet ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected ...