S1 (ATLAS) has met its demise after traveling too close the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the its fateful dive. Credit: Space.com | ESA/NASA SOHO | edited ...

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

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost ...

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

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) as seen from the International Space Station on Jan. 11, 2025. (Image credit: Don Petit/NASA) Rendezvous with the sun The comet reached perihelion on Jan. 13 at around 1000 ...

Amateur and professional astronomers alike have been delighted by the spectacular display provided by Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) during mid and late January. After it made its closest pass to the sun ...

C/2024 G3 was first spotted on April 5, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (Atlas), a network of telescopes designed to track asteroids that might pose a threat to Earth. 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 ...

It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the past few nights it has been putting on a show for Australian star-gazers. But it can't go on forever — especially because astronomers now think ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the ...

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. When you ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a sungrazer comet, and the encounter made it bright – so ...