The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph aboard the Soho spacecraft captured the view of the comet as it flew with a ...

but later observations suggested that the comet is taking a different path that will allow it to survive and perhaps even remain intact for a flyby of Earth. Read more Dozens of stars show signs ...

This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...

Keep your eye on the sky tonight. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. Monday, Jan. 13 is when the comet will ...

The sun might burn the comet up, making us the first, last, and only humans to ever see it. But if the ball of space ice survives its fiery flyby, it will reappear in the Southern Hemisphere at ...

there are signs it might have broken up after the comet’s flyby the sun. Also, in space news NASA recently shared images from the robotic explorers a recent image of a color-enhanced view of ...

It was a perfectly safe flyby at 7.6 million miles (12.3 million ... Alinda will close relatively close to Earth will be in 2087. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) will be best seen on Monday, Jan. 13 ...

The comet was discovered with a telescope in Chile and it was initially unclear whether it would survive its flyby of the sun. However, this is now considered fairly certain, the only question is ...

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final moments ...

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.