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

(Another option is checking out the comet online, through the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which may be an altogether better sighting.) A cosmic clump of frozen dust and ice, Comet C/2024 G3 ...

thanks to the effects of passing close to the Sun on their internal water ice and volatiles such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide." The Oort Cloud comet — also known as the Tsuchinshan ...

Comet Atlas C/2024 G3, like all comets, is a frozen chunk left over from the formation of the solar system — composed of dust, rock and ice — that heat up and start to melt as it approaches ...

Hot on the heels of a spectacular comet late last year, another celestial visitor is set to put on a show. And Southern Hemisphere observers have a ringside seat.

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 ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...

Do the periods of comets decrease because they lose mass every time they get near the Sun? Robert BaileyConover, Wisconsin ...

The sun might burn the comet up, making us the first, last, and only humans to ever see it. But if the ball of space ice survives its fiery flyby, it will reappear in the Southern Hemisphere at ...

The Sun-skirter comet C/2024 G3 is visible from the southern hemisphere this week as it makes its second-ever swing around ...

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 ...

Nasa says it's hard to predict how bright the comet will be, but it's thought it might be powerful enough to be seen across ...