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

A very experienced comet observer, John Bortle of Stormville, New York, calls C/2024 G3 "the Great Comet of 2025." He writes: The comet's post-perihelion appearance closely resembles that of the ...

12P/Pons-Brooks is a good comet—but it’s not a “great comet.” For that, a comet needs to be visible to the naked eye easily. That’s not the case for 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is magnitude ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...