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

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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

In the real world, however, mass does not simply disappear - it has to go somewhere. In a comet's case, ice turns into gas ...

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 ...

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 ...

G3 has mesmerized astronomers and amateur skygazers for months as the world tried to spot the bright comet in the sky nearing its fatal encounter with the Sun.

The Perseids result from Earth passing through debris — bits of ice and rock — left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last passed close to Earth in 1992.

In a comet’s case, ice turns into gas when heated by the Sun, and that gas escapes into space (a process called outgassing), usually also carrying away some amount of dust along with it.