While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern ...

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

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

It’s the fact that this comet isn’t likely to pass by Earth for the next 50,000 years that has so many excited about it. You can see the image on NASA’s website. NASA’s Astronomy Photo of ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

which is why it's taken such a long journey -- and long time -- to swing by Earth again, according to The Planetary Society. A green comet will appear in the night sky this week, for the first ...