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NASA STEREO-A satellite's SECCHI/HI-2 camera captured this imagery of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) Credit: Space.com | footage ...

The design community in Malmö is nascent, even though it includes well-established names. There is no design school here, but there is the Form/Design Center, a non-profit institution located in the ...

Furthermore, while comets are sometimes depicted as fiery, their glow is more subtle. Maybe the bright flash you just saw was space junk? Perhaps. The number of orbital rocket launches and ...

To study the structure of the jet to map dark clouds in M87, professional astronomers use the most powerful instruments available, including the Hubble Space Telescope. I’d never heard of an ...

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS ... called the coma. SEE MORE SPACE PHOTOS —James Webb telescope reveals mysterious 'light echo' in the broken ...

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 ...

Now, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has been photographed on its journey around the sun by humans living in orbit in the International Space Station. The comet made its closest pass of the sun on ...

It doesn't have the name recognition of Halley's Comet, but this enormous snowball zipping through space has fascinated at least one astronomer night after summer night for its shape-shifting tail.

If the comet wanders this close to Earth, it will be as bright as most stars in the night sky, making it possible for people to spot it with the naked eye for several weeks. You may like Space ...

But scientists believe comets hurtling through space may hold that wisdom. Like an asteroid, a comet orbits the sun. The latter is a ball of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system.