The New York Times and the Michelin Guide have taken notice, columnist David Allen writes between bites. Also: more about ...

A comet discovered nearly a century ago is putting up a spectacular show in the night sky. Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann underwent an explosion in February 2026, which increased its brightness by ...

The newly discovered object dubbed the Great Comet of 2026 may become visible to the naked eye during its close solar pass in April.

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The comet is now racing away from the sun following a close flyby on Jan. 20.

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured an amazing time-lapse (looped here) of comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS. Also see a view from il telescopio Copernico dell’Osservatorio di Asiago. Credit ...

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NASA shared some new infrared images of the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet this week, showing the visitor brightening up in a dramatic outburst while exiting a solar system. The images were taken by the ...

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early April, and could become bright enough to be seen without a telescope during ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...