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

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.

In this image sequence, captured by SOHO's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), the sun is blocked by a disk (at the bottom), and the white ... in the comet's tail and create the ...

Thursday night could be one of the last nights you'll be able to see a super rare comet and its bright tail streaking across ... "The central white tails are likely made of dust and just ...

The material it spews forms a tail that stretches millions of miles, which can sometimes be spotted in the night sky. During perihelion, the comet will come within 8.3 million miles of the sun.

G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.

It has long been assumed that the gases of a comet tail are pushed away from the comet by the pressure of light from the sun. It now appears that many tails are caused by a wind of charged ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the ...

Some people have seen Comet A3 with an anti-tail in front, much like the one seen in this 2023 image of Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF). © Kết Nối Việt Nam via Flickr Don ...