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

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

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

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

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

The Planetary Society website explained that the comet got its name "from how it was discovered. The '2024 G3' comes from it ...

The object is designated Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), as it was first reported by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), hailed as the ‘Comet of the Century,’ was captured from the ISS as it orbited 250 miles above the South Atlantic. The unobstructed view offers an ...

In particular, though, three made headlines like no other — the total solar eclipse, the strongest solar storm in 20 years, and the comet of the century. On the 8th of April, 2024, the Sun ...

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.

After an extraordinary year of watching full moons, eclipses, meteors and northern lights, a comet will be viewable right off the bat in 2025. It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com ...