A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the ...

It got within 140 million km on 14 January, but as it heads off again into the void of space, the southern hemisphere is best ...

An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.

An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.

It last passed nearby 180,000 years ago and the next few nights could be your last chance to ever see it as it drifts over ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Perfect weather has opened up Adelaide’s skies for an event of a lifetime that won’t happen again for about 160,000 years.

A new study, currently under review for publication, suggests that an ancient cosmic visitor might have significantly altered the orbits of our solar system's giant planets. Scientists propose that ...

Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...