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 escaping material can cause significant changes in a comet's orbit, acting like natural rocket engines, with the exact ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...

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

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 ...

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

“It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit,” he wrote on Instagram. “Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.” Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner imaged the comet a few days prior. There have ...

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

In the days following the comet's discovery, astronomers worked out its orbit—and it turned out to be a "sun-skirter" that would pass less than 14 million kilometers from our star on January 13.

This label is applied whenever a comet’s orbit takes longer than 200 years. Because its orbit is expected to take tens of thousands of years to complete its orbit, some astronomers told Newsweek ...