While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.Comet ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

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.

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

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Comets are “big, snowy dirt balls,” that ... "I’m hoping to catch pics of that." NASA recommends checking Stellarium Web or the Astronomical League’s ‘Moon Occults Mars’ chart to ...

The thermal stress that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) experienced during its close pass with the sun may have caused it to break apart a week later. More MARIANA SUAREZ/AFP via Getty Images / ISTOCK ...

"The head of the comet became so bright, it overwhelmed LASCO's sensor, creating artificial horizontal bands (known as "bleeding") in the images," NASA explained. The comet was only first ...