Comet NEOWISE has been wowing stargazers all month long, and on Wednesday it made its closest approach to Earth. The comet, which has a nucleus measuring roughly 3 miles in diameter, according to NASA ...

By that time, Davy Kirkpatrick said, we were sneaking to 200 billion rows in the table of all of our individual detections we had made in the last ten years. The field of engineering usually ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections ...

For the first time in 6,800 years, comet NEOWISE is streaking past Earth. Lucky for us, we have about a week of viewing time. Observers in the Northern Hemisphere are hoping to catch a glimpse of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) - A lot of people will be going outside to see Comet NEOWISE this weekend, as the rare spectacle makes its first appearance in nearly 7000 years in the twilight sky. The faint ...

The NEWOWISE comet has excited researchers since it was first discovered in March. Now, new images of the celestial object reveal it may have a sodium tail. The images, which were taken on July 8 by ...

The last time Comet NEOWISE was visible from Earth, the wheel had not been invented. NEOWISE, which is passing through the inner Solar System on its 6,800 year orbit around the Sun, is currently ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Gareth Dorrian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on re-entering the atmosphere after ...

The comet NEOWISE—full name C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)—was discovered on March 27 by astronomers analyzing data from the comet's namesake, the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission.