While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

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

The comet was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986, Halley’s orbit period is on average, 76 Earth years. This corresponds to an ...

When Chris Schur took his daytime photographs of the comet on January 12th and 13th, he reported that: "The nucleus of the ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

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 ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

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.