A comet that just skirted past our sun should light up the night sky this week. The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was ... system towards the distant Oort cloud. As seen from our planet today ...

However, these initial calculations also suggested that G3 ATLAS was a new comet coming directly from out of the Oort cloud, a vast bubble composed of countless billions of icy objects encircling ...

All that's left is a cloud of dust," Zhang said. Even though Comet ATLAS was only discovered over a year ago, its short life wasn’t in vain. Astronomers study Sun-grazing comets because they are ...