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 ...

Comet ATLAS brightens as it nears the Sun, providing scientists with valuable data on solar wind interactions and offering a ...

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 ...

After an extraordinary year of watching full moons, eclipses, meteors and northern lights, a comet will be viewable right off the bat in 2025. It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com ...

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 ...

It might be called the curse of comets – over and over again, hopes have been raised of a dazzling curve of light across the sky, only for nothing to be visible to the naked eye. The pattern ...

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.

Did you know? The Orionids are the second meteor shower in the year created by Halley's Comet, the Eta Aquarids in May are also created by the famous comet. The Orionid meteor shower is produced ...

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 ...