Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...

A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa said ...

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be able to see it?

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet Venus. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar ... Remarkably, it survived despite coming within just 8.3 million miles (13.5 million kilometers). That's less than a third of Mercury’s average ...

Due to its proximity to our star, it is expected to glow brightly over the coming nights, nearly outshining the planet Venus in our skies. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is currently just past its ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! When a comet gets close to the sun, the sunlight heats up the ice, causing it to sublimate, or transition ...

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to reach naked eye visibility in 2025: Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. This comet ...

This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...

In late 2024, it was determined that the comet was more than 350,000 years old, which means it traveled through our solar system once before and survived coming close to the sun before.

When a comet gets close to the sun ... But most excitingly, the Rubin Observatory coming online this year should discover many new dark comets. Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Survey ...