The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was only discovered in April 2024, and reached its closest point to our sun yesterday at a distance of about 8.3 million miles. Due to its proximity to our star ...

Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images Comet Atlas C/2024 G3, discovered by the Atlas Survey System, has been slowly approaching the inner solar system and will reach perihelion, its closest point to ...

Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 will reach perihelion on January 13. If you thought a meteor shower and four-planet conjunction was it for celestial excitement this month, you thought wrong. Even though we ...

The comet, known as C/2024 G3 or ATLAS, could be the brightest of 2025 ... or the Astronomical League’s ‘Moon Occults Mars’ chart to find out the best time to see it in your area.

The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the sun, and will come within 8.3 million miles of our star on January 13. During this closest approach to the sun, the comet is ...

Right now Comet ATLAS appears in the constellation Sagittarius, and though it may look too close for comfort in Pettit's image, it's actually some 87 million miles from Earth. Sunlight tends to ...

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. This comet reaches perihelion at 0.094 Astronomical Units (AU, 8.7 million miles or 14 million kilometers, interior to the orbit of Mercury) from the sun on January 13th ...

"Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit." The ISS photo, which was shared on Jan. 11, captures the comet as it blazes through space. It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and dust ...

It could shine as bright as Venus, or similar to Tsuchinshan-ATLAS/ Comet C/2023 A3, the "comet of the century" that stunned stargazers in mid-October. The last time Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas ...