In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A comet believed to be in its death throes could briefly be seen over Tasmania this week as it hurtled through the cosmos in ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

The escaping material can cause significant changes in a comet's orbit, acting like natural rocket engines, with the exact ...

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 ...

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

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?

Comets orbit the sun in elliptical paths and are "considered to be remnants from the formation of the solar system and are thought to contain clues about the origins of the universe," NASA added.

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

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 ...

Experts have examined the comet and have determined it is "old" having made a previous orbit close to earth around 160,000 years ago. Comet G3 ATLAS is also predicted to be the brightest in nearly 20 ...