Comets

Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura has discovered a new comet, which will be visible to the naked eye in September 2023. Visible comets are a rare and beautiful experience and have fascinated humans for millennia. This peculiar object had been...

NASA controllers will deliberately crash their $330 million spacecraft traveling at more than four miles per second into Dimorphos, an asteroid, in a few weeks, so as to destroy it. The purpose of this kamikaze science mission is for space...

Harvard astronomer Dr. Avi Loeb believes that aliens may have tried to contact us in 2017, when an object called 'Oumuamua flew past Earth. In a book published in early 2021, Loeb, who was the head of Harvard's astronomy department,...