In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an ...

Watch how Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after traveling close to the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the its fateful dive. Credit: Space.com | ESA/N ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was the rare comet that arrived with a year and a half of fanfare and lived up to the hype, serving up naked-eye views for weeks. If it was not a Great Comet, it was at ...

The Great Comet of 2025 was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) as it sped ­towards the inner solar system. One woman was ready to capture this rare event.

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

In the pictures, Ella-Mae - known as Comet on Gladiators - looked overjoyed as she covered her mouth in shock and beamed from ear-to-ear. She cut a glamorous figure in a baby blue wrap dress as ...

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids. When this meteor shower lights up the ...

Get ready for a celestial spectacle! The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, spawned from Halley's Comet debris, is set to peak on May 6th. Stargazers might witness up to 50 meteors per hour. Visible ...

The human eye takes about 30 minutes to adjust to the dark. The Eta Aquarids originate from Halley’s Comet, which was last seen in the night sky in 1986, according to NASA. First seen in 1705 by ...