G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...

This indicates that the nucleus of the comet might be in the process of crumbling into pieces. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the ...

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

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 ...

It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and dust particles created when the comet gets close to the sun and its icy nucleus begins to vaporize. In the photo from the space station ...

The time has come for it to emerge to our evening skies. At the heart of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a dirty snowball or "cometary nucleus" only a few hundred meters to a couple of kilometers across.

New observations suggest that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which recently became visible to the naked eye, might be breaking ...

From astronomer Yuri Beletsky, a photo of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) arching over ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

He noticed that the comet's coma — the cloud around its nucleus — had dimmed significantly during this time, hinting that the comet's head may have started breaking apart, according to ...