Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

Astronaut Don Pettit took this stunning photo of a nearby comet from the International Space Station ...

G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.

Hot on the heels of a spectacular comet late last year, another celestial visitor is set to put on a show. And Southern ...

Do the periods of comets decrease because they lose mass every time they get near the Sun? Robert BaileyConover, Wisconsin ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," he said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Right now Comet ATLAS appears in ...

Every once in a while, the gravity of a passing star will change the orbit of these dirt balls, sending them into the inner solar system. Some comets have been around for thousands of years ...