A photo taken from the International Space Station captures the brilliant comet known as C/2024 G3 ATLAS, which could be 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 ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

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

Comet ATLAS brightens as it nears the Sun, providing scientists with valuable data on solar wind interactions and offering a ...

The comet can also be viewed through your computer screen, courtesy of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Some comets ultimately disintegrate from the heat, but if Comet Atlas survives ...

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

Rubin Observatory may shine a lot of light on dark ... skywatching events and more! When a comet gets close to the sun, the sunlight heats up the ice, causing it to sublimate, or transition ...

Astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences first spotted the comet on Jan. 5. The IAU's Minor Planet Center confirmed the discovery on Thursday and designated ...

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?

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the ...