Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts a visit. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," he said on X ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! But from an altitude of 254 miles (409 km) above the Earth, the comet was relatively easy to see and ...

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

The Space Needle is located in Seattle Washington. It was built in 1962 just in time for the World's Fair. The top looks like a Flying Saucer and is meant to inspire people to look towards the future.

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...

where dust from the comet causes it to appear brighter than it would normally, but the chances of this are low, according to meteorologist Joe Rao at Space.com. Do we create space-time?

"This comet as it stands, is only possible to photograph during the glare of the sun," Josh Dury told Space.com. "Being near the apparent brightness of Venus makes it a possible target at dusk ...

The comet was seen from the International Space Station over the weekend A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years.

Astronaut Don Pettit even snapped a picture of the comet zipping along the horizon from the International Space Station. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying ...

An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a stunning photograph of the super-bright "New Year comet" seemingly shooting behind Earth. The comet, named C/2024 G3 (ATLAS ...

by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (Atlas)—a network of telescopes that scans space for asteroids that could potentially hit Earth. The comet comes from the Oort Cloud ...

according to Space.com. While studying the comet's orbit scientists learned that the celestial body was likely much older than they initially thought, and likely passed by the sun some 160,000 ...