A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

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

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

Discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... increased solar radiation received at that ...

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

G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.

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 ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet ... in the solar atmosphere (or corona). Although this comet was first spotted in April 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ...

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

Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's windows and caught the comet as it paid the astronauts ... and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...