The "once-in-a-lifetime" comet that recently lit up night skies for the first time in millennia might be falling apart after ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

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 ...

G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a ...

New observations suggest that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which recently became visible to the naked eye, might be breaking ...

It’s a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere around the solar system that’s home to millions of comets. Astronomers think it loops around the sun once every 80,000 years. Its coma is ...

Writing in the journal Nature Communications, an international team describe how 2I/Borisov’s coma - the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet - polarised light at a higher rate than ...

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?

Additionally, the interaction between the solar wind and the comet's coma has been a significant area of study. Research has shown that the solar wind is deflected and slowed down as it interacts ...

Skywatchers witnessed the remarkable appearance of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) on January 13, 2025. With a brightness comparable to Venus, it became visib ...

A comet is made from ice and dust. As it gets closer to the sun, it heats up slightly. That causes the ice covering its nucleus to become a gas, creating a coma. This gas — and dust — from the ...

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.