Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

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

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

C/2024 G3 was thought to originate in the Oort cloud, an enormous cloud of rock and ice surrounding our solar system ... pictures of the comet and its spectacular tail. While not visible from ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar system dark ... are in the ice and on the comet's surface are swept up and travel along for the ride. The beautiful tails are visible when this ...

is currently headed toward the sun on its 160,000-year trip through the solar system. Like Comet A3, which was visible over Arizona last fall, it's a long-period comet with a substantial tail.

Comet Atlas C/2024 G3, like all comets, is a frozen chunk left over from the formation of the solar system — composed ... The material it spews forms a tail that stretches millions of miles ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the perihelion of its massive, 160,000-year orbit through our solar system. The comet was only first ...

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 comet ...