A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet ...

The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

A comet visible only once every 160,000 years is set to fly by Earth. And there's a pretty decent chance you can see it.

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

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

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.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

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

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

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

A BRIGHT comet could be visible in the sky for the first time in 160,000 years – making it a real once-in-a-lifetime display.