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.

This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...

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

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...

It got within 140 million km on 14 January, but as it heads off again into the void of space, the southern hemisphere is best placed to see it. Australian National University astrophysicist Dr Brad ...

Astronaut Don Pettit took this stunning photo of a nearby comet from the International Space Station ...

The last time Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) passed Earth, humans were beginning to spread across the world after leaving Africa. It was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

Dr Shyam Balaji, researcher in astroparticle physics and cosmology at King’s College London, told the BBC that “current ...