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

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

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

The comet was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986, Halley’s orbit period is on average, 76 Earth years. This corresponds to an ...

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

The International Space Station is captured in orbit from ... icy objects surrounding the solar system. Comets there are sometimes dislodged by the gravity of another object, redirecting them ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

That simple observation had larger implications for categorizing these cryptic wanderers. New data suggest that some dark comets hang out in the outer solar system and others live closer in. The ones ...

Photos from the Southern Hemisphere and even the International Space Station show the bright tail of the comet ... Astronomers study Sun-grazing comets because they are essentially leftovers from the ...