Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the perihelion of its massive, 160,000-year orbit through our solar system. The comet was only first ...

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 ...

At its closest, the comet was over three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than the Earth, but is now on its way back out of the solar system towards the ...

As comets approach the center of the Solar System, they send off trails of gas and dust. (Credit: Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi) There aren’t many comets that are visible to observers without binoculars or ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the remnants of the materials that formed the solar systems’s planets.

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later ... Emerging from the Oort Cloud in the solar system, the G3 comet was first discovered on 5 April last year ...

The comet’s home is a trillion miles away, the thick icy bubble full of comets surrounding our solar system called the Oort Cloud. For context in this 160,000-year-long orbit, Neptune ...

2025 is getting off to a star-packed — or mostly planet- and comet-studded — start, including an upcoming welcome to a first-time visitor to our solar system. But first, one of the year’s ...