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

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

In 2017, astronomers discovered the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua. In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar system ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

One of the many advantages of being in space is having a front-row seat to the most anticipated cosmic events.

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet ...

January 13, 2025, the night sky offers a spectacle that comes once in a millennium. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a celestial ...

In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered two classes of these elusive dark comets. The solar system is teaming with small bodies such as comets and asteroids.

A once-in-a-lifetime comet just made its closest approach to the Sun, becoming visible for the first time in 160,000 years.