On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

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Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

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Kiwis are soon likely to get a direct glimpse at a passing comet that’s already been making for stunning pictures.

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it will also pass in front of the more-brilliantly-red-than-usual Mars in an event known as a lunar occultation. But that’s not all January’s sky has to offer. A new comet, expected to be the ...

Those who miss the comet will still have the chance to see a cool space event Monday night, said Brothers, from MIT. There will be a lunar occultation of Mars. That means Mars will slip behind the ...