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

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

This indicates that the nucleus of the comet might be in the process of crumbling into pieces. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the ...

G3 has mesmerized astronomers and amateur skygazers for months as the world tried to spot the bright comet in the sky nearing its fatal encounter with the Sun.

The time has come for it to emerge to our evening skies. At the heart of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a dirty snowball or "cometary nucleus" only a few hundred meters to a couple of kilometers across.

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 ...

New observations suggest that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which recently became visible to the naked eye, might be breaking ...

He noticed that the comet's coma — the cloud around its nucleus — had dimmed significantly during this time, hinting that the comet's head may have started breaking apart, according to ...

When Chris Schur took his daytime photographs of the comet on January 12th and 13th, he reported that: "The nucleus of the comet is singular, stellar and not breaking up as far as I can see." But ...

The brightest comet of the year, which has been lighting up the sky over the past week, may be in the process of breaking ...