The last time this was seen, humanity had only just begun to expand. Over the coming months, a celestial object that was last observed when Neanderthals walked the planet will be visible if you look up into the sky. A … Read More
Goodbye, little comet – we barely knew you. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, observed a comet brightening as it approached the Sun – until the heat became too much … Read More
A comet so massive that it was initially misidentified as a dwarf planet is on its way in from the outer Solar System. There’s no need to be concerned; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as the comet is known, will pass just … Read More