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.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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

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

Discovered on Apr. 5, 2024, by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) network of telescopes, C/2024 G3 comes from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of comets around the solar system.

Image source: 安ちゃん / Adobe The comet is believed to have come from the Oort Cloud, a massive cloud of icy objects surrounding our Solar System. We’ve previously seen other comets from ...

He noticed that the comet's coma — the cloud around its nucleus — had dimmed significantly during this time, hinting that the comet's head may have started breaking apart, according to ...

This shrouds the nucleus in a vast cloud of gas and dust, which is then blown away from the sun, creating the comet's tails. Comets that get particularly close to the sun can become spectacular.