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

Astronaut Don Pettit took this stunning photo of a nearby comet from the International Space Station ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet Venus. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), is making a beeline for the ...

A guide on how to see Comet C/2024 G3 from Texas this week before it dims and disappears for the next 160,000 years.

Nasa says it's hard to predict how bright the comet will be, but it's thought it might be powerful enough to be seen across ...

According to 'Daily Star', dubbed ‘comet of the century', it will have a very bright, beautiful and long tail when it passes by the Sun at a distance similar to Mercury's orbit. While passing by ...

Traditionally, the difference between comets and asteroids is that comets have beautiful cometary tails while asteroids do not. These dusty tails — or comae — form because comets contain ice.

One leading idea is that space rocks such as comets and asteroids delivered water to the Earth through impacts. As a planetary scientist, I’m curious about the kinds of space objects that could ...

A University of Michigan-led study published in the journal Icarus makes the case that a large part of earth’s water may have come from so-called ‘dark comets.’ Dark comets are near-earth ...