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

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 ...

Experts think the comet started breaking up last week, but it's still putting on a show for star gazers for a few more days.

It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the past few nights ... that sparks the death of the comet — the nucleus is gone, disintegrated — but it did release a huge amount of gas and ...

Doomsday' fish found on beach sparks fears ... breaking Kiwi swimmer goes out on her terms Last chance to see rare Atlas comet over New Zealand's skies ...

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 ...

The spectacularly tailed Atlas comet (C/2024 G3) has come close to the Sun. The Atlas comet made another cosmic show as it entered inside Mercury's orbit. Unfortunately, this sight cannot be seen ...

The brightest comet of the year, which has been lighting up the sky over the past week, may be in the process of breaking apart. The comet, named Comet ATLAS ... (C/2011 W3) disintegrated in ...

Photographer Josh Durry captured a rare image of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which orbits the sun every 160,000 years, on Jan. 15. The comet, which passed close to the sun on Jan. 13, reached peak ...