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

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

A comet tail is formed by dust and ions blown off the speeding rock by solar wind. The dust trailing the rock reflects ...

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

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

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

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

This gas — and dust — from the coma trails behind the comet, causing a tail that can be hundreds of millions of miles long. As of late-Sept., its tail is about 27 degrees in length ...

In the days following its perihelion, people around the world snapped some stunning pictures of the comet and its spectacular tail. While not visible from the Northern Hemisphere, people in the ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

carrying off more dust in the process, and all this extra material means it can produce a mighty tail without getting into such hard-to-see territory as sungrazers like Comet Lovejoy and C/2024 G3.

This shrouds the nucleus in a vast cloud of gas and dust, which is then blown away ... in this video is just the location of the comet's head. The tail will rise upwards from the comet into ...