If you want to catch some blood moon action, you’ll need to be up early on the morning of March 3. The lunar eclipse reaches ...

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A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in early December and has been unable to reconnect with the vehicle. NASA plans to resume efforts to hail the spacecraft now that the solar conjunction ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19. The comet will pass within about 170 million miles of our planet and poses no danger. While not visible to the naked ...

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within ...

The HiRISE orbiter successfully photographed interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its high-speed journey past the red planet, offering scientists their closest view yet A camera designed to study the ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

Could a comet’s tail rewrite what we know about interstellar visitors? That question is now front and center after NASA’s November 5, 2025, observations of 3I/ATLAS revealed a tail structure unlike ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is set to make its closest approach to Earth in December. 3I/ATLAS is the third-ever discovered object confirmed to have originated from outside our solar system. While ...

It is a rare event for the solar system to receive a visitor from the vast, lonely void of interstellar space, and even rarer to catch it on camera. Yet, at the beginning of October, the cosmic stage ...