"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...
New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...
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.
Experts think the comet started breaking up last week, but it's still putting on a show for star gazers for a few more days.
Comet ATLAS brightens as it nears the Sun, providing scientists with valuable data on solar wind interactions and offering a ...
G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.
"That’s very close," said Dr. Qicheng Zhang, a post-doctoral astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, who studies Sun-grazer comets like Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. However, the dangerous ...
It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the past few nights it has been putting on a show for Australian star-gazers. But it can't go on forever — especially because astronomers now think ...
Often, star-grazing comets such as C/2024 G3 do not survive the encounter with the Sun, though astronomers believe that this one did so in the past. This comet's period is 135,000 years – long for a ...