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Refresh 2025-12-18T18:39:40.702Z What time is comet 3I/ATLAS's closest Earth approach? If you're hoping to try and watch comet 3I/ATLAS's closest approach to Earth live online, it would help to know exactly when to tune in. But…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth early on Friday, Dec. 19. While it won't come close enough to pose any risk to our planet, astronomers have calculated the precise moment when the comet reaches its…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19, marking a key moment in the journey of one of the rarest visitors ever observed in our solar system.Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS…

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the object nears its closest approach to Earth later this month.…

If you are anything like us you probably memorized the order of the planets in the Solar System back in school, and the older among you may still feel compelled to include Pluto even though it was downgraded a whole 19 years ago.The rest…

After teasing a major announcement, NASA has released a slate of new images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the closest observations obtained to date.Across the Solar System, from observatories studying the Sun to…

Image of 3I/ATLAS at a distance of 28.96 million kilometers, taken by the Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter of CNSA. (Credit: Cai Jinman & Zhang Wei, CNSA)On October 3, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within 29 million kilometers of…

Let’s hope for the forecasted clear skies Wednesday night as we will want to see a lunar showpiece — the closest and brightest moon for 2025 — a full hunter’s supermoon.…

Comets C/2025 A6 Lemmon & C/2025 R2 SWAN at their closest approach to Earth – online observation - YouTube Watch On Two comets, C/2025 A4 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are about to reach their closest approach to Earth and…