Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

The color comes from carbon in the gas cloud surrounding its nucleus, known as the coma. The comet wasn’t nearly as spectacular as NEOWISE was back in 2020, the brightest comet to come this way since ...

Cancel anytime. The best is yet to come for sky watchers who want to see the long-tailed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Astronomers say it should put on a show the next few days. The comet Tsuchinshan ...

Let’s explore the history of comets, from Halley’s to the more recent Neowise and Leonard, and even the renowned comet 67P, which was outfitted with the Philae spacecraft. These frozen things have ...

Opik is available as a fully open source local installation or using Comet.com as a hosted solution. The easiest way to get started with Opik is by creating a free Comet account at comet.com. If you'd ...

COMET (Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory) is a two-hour interactive training that teaches participants how to reach out in a meaningful, respectful and supportive way to friends, co-workers ...

In a remarkable demonstration of both the unpredictability of space and the extraordinary capabilities of modern astronomical detection, a small asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, recently made headlines ...

NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft concluded its 15-year mission. The spacecraft identified around 3,000 near-Earth objects. NEOWISE's data will aid future asteroid research and missions.