"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 ...

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be able to see it?

Comets orbit the sun in elliptical paths and are "considered to be remnants from the formation of the solar system and are thought to contain clues about the origins of the universe," NASA added.

The brightest comet of the year was spotted skimming just past the sun by a satellite orbiting our star. The comment, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on ...

The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... Meteors are leftover pieces from broken asteroids and comet particles that spread out in dusty trails orbiting the sun.

In the stunning new book Universe: Exploring the Astronomical ... Dark Miracles (c.1550): Comets are portents of terrible things—or so it was explained in the 1550 German publication The ...

So, we'll use this space to deliver a fun fact. Most meteor showers are fueled by comets, chunks of ice floating through the universe that leave long trails that, as Earth moves through them ...