Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...
The breakup was caused by the extreme conditions near the Sun; during its latest approach, C/2025 K1 flew as close as 0.334 ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and back out of the Sun’s neighborhood, it offers a bright glimpse of material ...
Interstellar visitors are rare enough that each one rewrites the playbook for how scientists study the space between stars. On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS survey spotted a new object, first tagged as ...
(CNN) — Two newly discovered comets are streaking across the sky in a spectacular display as they make their closest approaches to Earth this month. Comets are made of ice, frozen gases and rock, and ...
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) fragmented after its October 2025 solar approach, with telescope observations documenting multiple ...