Peak viewing will occur between October 12-26. The comet will become the largest visible object in our solar system (after the moon, obviously). On Saturday, the comet was about 6 degrees above ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be bright enough to view by the naked eye for most of October. Here’s how to make sure you don’t miss the rare sighting ... suspected it might not survive ...

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We have been moderately lucky with comets in the last several months. We had Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS last October ... that it might get to magnitude +5.5, putting it in the visible to the naked ...

A newly discovered comet will be visible this weekend from a distance of about 44 million miles away. That may sound far off ... lot of notice because it’s a rare comet that’s bright enough ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle.

Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has been visible through telescopes and binoculars over the past few weeks with its streaming tail, but experts said it may not have survived ...