like Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. This is unlike the so-called short-period comets, which do not visit the Oort Cloud and have ...

It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com noted could be ... "In its favor is the fact that its orbital path suggests that it visited the inner solar system about 160,000 years ago ...

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

The comet discovered last year using the Asteroid Terrestial-Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, is relatively rare because of how close it got to the Sun in mid-January, passing about one-third ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was first discovered back in April last year (2024) by the ATLAS astronomical survey. Experts have examined the comet and have determined it is "old" having made a ...

The brightest object left of center is the moon, while the faint, wispy tail of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) can be seen at ... The ecliptic traces the path that Earth and the other planets follow ...