Restorers complete work on the canopy covering St. Peter’s main altar ahead of the 2025 Jubilee
Restorers have put the finishing touches on the ornate canopy covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which has been ...
How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies
The celestial visitor is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, or C/2023 A3 to scientists. Astronomers are expecting the comet to be ...
Asteroid Apophis' path near Earth in 2029 offers rare lessons in defending planet
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
Second Closest Galaxy To Earth Discovered
Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the third-largest galaxy in our local group, half the size of our Milky Way.
Earth may have once had an accessory: Evidence shows it may have had a ring like Saturn's
Planetary rings don’t last forever, although they do exist for millions of years. The evidence for Earth’s possible ring is ...
After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed the dinosaurs
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...
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Once-in-80,000-years comet last seen by Neanderthals to light up the skies this October
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas will be visible to the naked eye for the first time in 80,000 years.
How to see October's 'comet of the century' in Ohio before it disappears
A total solar eclipse in April. Beautiful northern lights in May. Now, October is giving Ohioans a chance to see possibly the ...
The ‘best comet of the year’ is finally here – here’s everything you need to know
A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is expected to be the brightest spectacle of 2024. Our charts will help you find it in the night sky.
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Earth will get a second "mini-moon" for 2 months this year
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving around Earth in a horseshoe shape from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25. Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...
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For 57 days this fall, Earth will have a second moon
As a result, “the dance will only last a little while.” Objects flying around Earth are important to track for potential danger. This month, a three-foot asteroid harmlessly burned up as it ...
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Earth is about to get its own asteroid 'mini-moon', but only for a short time
an asteroid called 2024 PT 5 was discovered by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in South Africa. ATLAS systems try to automatically detect asteroids and other near-Earth ...