Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...
The 1P/Halley, famously known as Halley's Comet, is responsible for the Eta Aquariids, and it's the biggest meteor shower to occur during spring with up to 50 meteors per hour. The only downside ...
Halley Murrow grew up a small town, southern girl from Lexington, North Carolina. From an early age, she always knew she would find herself in the world of broadcasting. She joined the WMBF team ...
“It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit,” he wrote on Instagram. “Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.” Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner imaged the comet a few days prior. There have ...
As a long-period comet, Comet ATLAS takes a long time to complete an orbit of the Sun. Astronomers estimate its orbital period is about 160,000 years. According to the Planetary Society ...
"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," Pettit wrote. If you fancy your chances of catching a glimpse of the comet before it disappears for millennia, you can track its position in the ...
Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS was discovered in April 2024 using the Asteroid Terrestial-Impact Last Alert System or ATLAS. As a long-period comet, Comet ATLAS takes a long time to complete an orbit of the ...
These are very different from Halley's Comet or similar, which complete periodic orbits around the Sun. Unlike their orbits, C/2024 G3 has a "weird, long-shaped" orbit where it gets pulled slowly ...
In the days following the comet's discovery, astronomers worked out its orbit—and it turned out to be a "sun-skirter" that would pass less than 14 million kilometers from our star on January 13.