Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west.

The comet broke into 21 fragments, which continued to orbit around Jupiter. It was discovered the following year by Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker, and David Levy and was the first comet ever ...

Based on the comet's brightness and current distance — it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit — scientists estimate its ...

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

This fall we see the return of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, and the possibility of a glimpse at a recently discovered comet. Fall officially began with the autumnal equinox at 8:43 a.m. Eastern time ...

Just look up. December's cosmic calendar is packed with two meteor showers—the Geminids and Ursids—and the best view of Jupiter until 2026.

Blood Moons, Meteor Showers and Eclipses: What To Look For in 2025. Published Jan 02, 2025 at 6:58 AM EST. By . ... Saturn, Jupiter and Mars align in the evening sky.

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, ... (1.1 million kilometers) or three times the Earth-Moon distance — it was a thousand times too faint to be seen with the naked eye.