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

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

This indicates that the nucleus of the comet might be in the process of crumbling into pieces. Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

Astrophoto of periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky. Green nucleus and tail of ion, dust ... [+] and vapor illuminated by the sun in front of star field in space. Have you seen comet 12P ...

The time has come for it to emerge to our evening skies. At the heart of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a dirty snowball or "cometary nucleus" only a few hundred meters to a couple of kilometers across.

The brightest comet of the year, which has been lighting up the sky over the past week, may be in the process of breaking apart. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), skirted three times closer to ...