Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an asteroid set to strike Earth - in a simulation.

In the end, Halley’s Comet made its appearance, and nothing drastic occurred. But the panic and fear leading up to it had dire consequences. The 1910 event is a testament to the very real ...

with larger chunks of comet debris becoming fireballs The blue map tracks their position in the skies over our planet with the main showers highlighted in white circles A second radar map looks at ...

COLUMBIA — A yearslong effort that involved at least $1.7 million in taxpayer money to build a COMET bus transfer hub will likely be abandoned. Since 2020, COMET has been working on a ...