Perihelion is the point on an orbital course that brings a body closest to the sun. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet ...

Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A4) will make its closest approach to Earth on November 8th, and is currently visible to the naked eye ...

Usually, sunlight makes cometary gases glow green from diatomic carbon (C2) or blue from ionized carbon monoxide (CO+). With ...

The fall sky-gazing season is officially in full swing with the Orionid meteor shower peak in October and Comet A6 Lemmon increasingly visible in the night sky. The Orionid meteor shower peaks on Oct.

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in December.

The best time to see a shooting star is on Nov. 16 and 17, when the Leonids peak during an almost completely dark waning crescent moon. The meteors from the Leonids can be very bright and colorful ...

Members of a Boone County Facebook group shared images and a video of what looked like a streak of fire falling in the sky around 7 p.m. last night.

Other than being a ‘Trojan Horse’ alien spaceship set to release probes to study our planet, or crashing into Earth, neither ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is one of only three interstellar objects ever detected in our solar system. Scientists are working to determine the comet's size and physical characteristics as it passes through our ...

We are in store for a nice Fall weekend. A cold front is sinking more to our south today with high pressure building into the region. Regional Weather Map We’ll have lots of sunshine over ...