In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

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

As seen from our planet today ... Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit," he posted to X. It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.

A celestial event 160,000 years in the making will grace the night sky this week, as Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) makes its rare appearance. Expected to be the brightest comet in nearly 20 years, it could ...

Astronaut Don Pettit captures stunning footage of Comet ATLAS from the International Space Station, offering a rare glimpse ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3 ... Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, orbits the star at a distance ...

Comet ATLAS brightens as it nears the Sun, providing scientists with valuable data on solar wind interactions and offering a ...

the closest planet to the sun. However, these initial calculations also suggested that G3 ATLAS was a new comet coming directly from out of the Oort cloud, a vast bubble composed of countless ...

When it comes to celestial events, 2025 is getting off to a star-packed — or mostly planet- and comet ... calculations indicate Comet C/2024 G3, nicknamed Comet Atlas G3, could be the brightest ...

The comet, named C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), made its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday (Jan. 14) when it came within 88 million miles (142 million kilometers) of our planet. A day earlier, it reached ...