A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet Venus. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the ...

The visual artist has created a stunning video of Comet Neowise making it way across the sky, and rising above Earth. The photos Doran used to create the work came from time-lapse photography on ...

In 2020, comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) — known as the “lockdown comet” — wowed observers in the Northern Hemisphere with its bright nucleus and long tail. Discovered on Apr. 5, 2024 ...

This event is linked to Halley’s comet, and occurs as another comet ... formed well beyond the orbit of the planet Jupiter. NEOWISE, a spacecraft that studied faraway cosmic objects before ...

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 ...

Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts a visit. "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," he said on X ...

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...

The icy space rock, known as C/2024 G3 Atlas is approaching the inner solar system. It is expected to make its closest approach to the Sun around Jan 13, when it may be visible, shining as brightly as ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...

A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth over the next few days. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was spotted in April last ...

Thursday, January 30, 2025: The fleeting Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) tried escaping over the horizon in the photograph shot by Patricio Murphy, but it was caught in the reflection of the puddle seen ...