We humans are a curious bunch. Whenever we come across something unfamiliar, our minds naturally start filling in the blanks about what it could be. That’s exactly what’s happening with comet 3I/ATLAS ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Have you seen the comets yet? Comets Lemmon (C/2025 A6) and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. You’ve likely already heard about two comets visible from ...

The article advocates for imaging the dozens of fainter comets visible annually, serving as a valuable opportunity for astrophotographers to enhance their technical skills with existing deep-sky ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system has just made its closest pass to the sun, brightening dramatically and rapidly as it did so. The reason for the sudden extreme activity ...

In the vast reaches of our solar system, new discoveries are constantly reshaping our understanding of space. One such revelation involves a comet that has unexpectedly turned gold after a perilous ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that won’t return until the next millennium. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), captured ...

Italian astronomers captured rare footage of Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS tearing itself apart in real-time. The comet's October 8 solar pass vaporized subsurface ice, creating gas pressure that cracked the ...

Despite some similarities and speculation, the new comet likely originated from our solar system's Oort Cloud and is not directly connected to 3I/ATLAS. The comet will make its closest approach to ...

No two comets are exactly alike. Of course, they can appear similar. Two decently bright comets that share a superficial resemblance are gracing our skies right now, in fact: C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and ...

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I don’t think anyone declared it, but 2025 was a big year for comets. There was comet Lemmon, which was discovered in January and stayed in the news for a good nine months. The images of Lemmon’s long ...