G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

A comet tail is formed by dust and ions blown off the speeding rock by solar wind. The dust trailing the rock reflects ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

This gas — and dust — from the coma trails behind the comet, causing a tail that can be hundreds of millions of miles long. As of late-Sept., its tail is about 27 degrees in length ...

a bright dust tail, which is created by the reflection of sunlight on the dust streaming from the comet, and a fainter ion tail, which is composed of electrically charged atoms swept from the ...

shows the comet's tail extending far above its nucleus as icy particles of dust and gas are ejected behind it as material sublimates — turns from solid to gas — as G3 (ATLAS) thaws in the heat of the ...

Battams Karl Battams, LASCO's principal investigator at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., processed some of the images to bring out fine details in the comet's tail and create the ...