Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

also caught a glimpse of comet G3 ATLAS. A timelapse of observations between Jan. 11 and Jan. 13 shows the comet's path and captures its exceptional brightness as it travels near the sun.

It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com noted could be ... "In its favor is the fact that its orbital path suggests that it visited the inner solar system about 160,000 years ago ...

The comet has travelled for over 160,000 years to make this appearance. Currently, the comet's path is primarily visible in the Southern Hemisphere. It has passed through constellations such as Lupus ...

While we often model the solar system with the sun at the center for simplicity, this new research shows that doing so misses a key part of how comet debris ... Earth’s path and create meteor ...

The nucleus of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) held together during a brutal perihelion ... From the abstract of a paper in Nature about the flight: On June 30, 1973, Concorde 001 intercepted the path of a ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch updates on this page, starting about two hours before tonight's ULA Atlas ...

The object, also known as Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), was discovered on September 27 and quickly earned its nickname following speculation that it might be visible in the night sky near the end of ...

The comet won't swing close to Earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year. Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020 and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the 1990s. The comet, also designated C/2025 ...