Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. These are the first two comets visible to amateur ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) as imaged using a Seestar S30 smart ...

Space, it’s full of surprises. An object, discovered at the beginning of the year, was first thought to be an asteroid. But then it grew a tail. Astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona ...

A new comet was discovered June 2011 with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System on a mountaintop in Maui, Hawaii. Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) came close to Earth earlier this week ...

Stargazers eager to catch a rare green comet in the sky tonight, Saturday, Oct. 25, are in for a double cosmic treat as Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN are close to Earth and visible in the sky this ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

As a visitor from another solar system made its closest approach to Mars on Friday, two spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet turned to look. The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...