I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly ...

Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

One simulation compared two comets—one with a 250-year orbit and one with a 4,000-year orbit. In both cases, the comets spent most of their time far beyond the big planets.

Astronomers have spotted unusual molecular activity in the largest Oort Cloud comet, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 ...

ADELAIDE Comets coach Theo Tsiounis says his team’s gutsy penalty shootout triumph over Adelaide City has raised hopes of winning the club’s first major trophy.

In 2015 comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy—seen here in a two-photo mosaic—neared the sun for the first time in millennia. Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought ...

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As of June 26, 2025, there are currently 7,875 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 7,855 are working, according to Astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who tracks the constellation on his website.