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NASA reveals how to spot four bright planets and 'shooting stars' from Halley's comet this May
The Red Planet will meet a beautiful star cluster called the Beehive on Friday (May 2). Also known as M44, the cluster will ...
Halley’s Comet debris soon to leave glowing streaks in the sky
On Sunday, May 4, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to leave glowing streaks in Earth’s atmosphere, according to the ...
Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN was discovered by an Australian amateur astronomer. This is how he found it
Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo discovered the latest comet to grace our sky. But he fears his tenth comet could be his ...
This green comet not visible to the human eye is likely breaking apart
NEW YORK — A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes ...
This newly found green comet may not have survived its trek past the sun
A recently-discovered comet could have appeared in the night sky with the naked eye, but its passage near the sun has turned ...
NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Suffers Glitch In Fuel System On Its Way To Metal-Rich Asteroid
In a blog post published last week, NASA revealed that the mission team noted a drop in fuel pressure of Psyche's propulsion ...
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Astronomers Discover a Doomed Exoplanet That’s Crumbling Away and Leaving Behind a Comet-Like Tail
The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...
First planet of its kind with ‘gargantuan’ comet-like tail discovered
Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a ...
This weird planet sports a giant tail like a comet
This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...
The 5000th Comet Discovered Using Space-Based Sun Observatory
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...