Comet Lemmon will be visible during October 2025 during the Orionid and Taurid meteor showers, creating a month of potential comets, "shooting stars" and fireballs. (2024's Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

The comet is only the third interstellar object recorded in the solar system. Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed ...

A rare interstellar comet — only the third ever confirmed to enter our solar system — was photographed last week, closely approaching Mars, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The images taken on ...

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This newly discovered comet could soon glow bright enough for the naked eye as it sweeps through October's morning and evening skies. Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) is quickly brightening as it draws closer ...

A European Space Agency spacecraft orbiting Mars caught a glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS last week. Credit: ESA / D. Ducros illustration As a visitor from another solar system made its closest ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

The European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter has captured the closest view yet of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The images reveal the comet's bright coma but show no signs of a tail. Soaring 18.6 ...