Stargazers across the Southern Hemisphere have been treated to views of a comet throughout the opening weeks of 2025. This past weekend, the cosmic spectacle became even more stunning as it ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

The escaping material can cause significant changes in a comet's orbit, acting like natural rocket engines, with the exact changes depending on the direction, speed, and amount of the escaping gas and ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it irreversibly.

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be able to see it?

Every once in a while, the gravity of a passing star will change the orbit of these dirt balls, sending them into the inner solar system. Some comets have been around for thousands of years ...

“It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit,” he wrote on Instagram. “Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.” Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner imaged the comet a few days prior. There have ...

A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa said ...

In the days following the comet's discovery, astronomers worked out its orbit—and it turned out to be a "sun-skirter" that would pass less than 14 million kilometers from our star on January 13.

This label is applied whenever a comet’s orbit takes longer than 200 years. Because its orbit is expected to take tens of thousands of years to complete its orbit, some astronomers told Newsweek ...