(Another option is checking out the comet online, through the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which may be an altogether better sighting.) A cosmic clump of frozen dust and ice, Comet C/2024 G3 ...

As they get closer to the sun and that ice begins to melt away, they increase in brightness. Whether you’ll be able to see the comet depends on your latitude, said Lewis from Cornell University.

Comet Atlas C/2024 G3, like all comets, is a frozen chunk left over from the formation of the solar system — composed of dust, rock and ice — that heat up and start to melt as it approaches ...

In the real world, however, mass does not simply disappear - it has to go somewhere. In a comet's case, ice turns into gas ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shares a photo of Comet ATLAS that he took from a window of the International Space Station. Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock ...

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 ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet Venus. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the ...

These dusty tails — or comae — form because comets contain ice. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! When a comet gets close to the sun ...

A comet is made from ice and dust. As it gets closer to the sun, it heats up slightly. That causes the ice covering its nucleus to become a gas, creating a coma. This gas — and dust — from the ...

When a comet approaches the sun, the heat causes the ice in its nucleus to transition directly from a solid state to gas (known as sublimation), which can weaken the structural integrity of the ...

As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month, here’s a chance to see the impact of Halley's Comet, the most famous clump of ice, rock and dust in the solar system. Last seen in ...

When a comet approaches the Sun, the heat causes the ice in the nucleus to sublimate (turn directly from solid to gas), creating a glowing halo of gas and dust around the nucleus called the coma.