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

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 ...

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.

Hungarian astrophotographer Lionel Majzik has made headlines in the scientific community with his groundbreaking discovery: ...

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

Comet C/2024 G3’s coma dims post-solar encounter Thermal stress suspected to cause nucleus fractures Observations hint at potential disintegration in progress ...

However, the dangerous encounter with our star changed Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS, destroying its nucleus – the "head" of the comet. Photos from the Southern Hemisphere and even the International Space ...

At the heart of a comet, Dr Horner says, is a nucleus with something like a "dirty snowball" of ice, rock, and dust. And as it gets closer to the heat of the Sun, the ice heats up past the point ...

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