NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, tracks Santa's Christmas Eve flight around the world each year. Follow a ...

The small, icy visitor now racing away from the inner solar system is not just another comet. It is an interstellar object, ...

Eager skywatchers will soon have front-row seats to a rare cosmic encounter as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth, and you can watch it happen live online tonight! The ...

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The comet will make its closest pass to Earth in February, reaching a minimum distance of approximately 93 million miles.

New images taken with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter and greener since its close flyby of the sun in October. When you purchase ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

Update: Friday, December 19, 8:16 a.m. ET: The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 has postponed its livestream of 3I/ATLAS’s Earth flyby to Friday, December 19, starting at 11:00 p.m. ET. Original article ...

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Rough Rider State Park near Medora offers nature lovers the ultimate dream: breathtaking badlands scenery with the precious gift of solitude. The first time you round that bend on the approach road ...

Santa Claus is coming to your town soon. Track his path to your town using the NORAD Santa Tracker or Google Santa Tracker.

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...