Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

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

A once-in-a-lifetime comet has been spotted over New Zealand skies this week. Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas), which last visited the Sun about 180,000 years ago, is expected to continue to be visible for the ...

In the days following the comet's discovery, astronomers worked out its orbit — and it turned out to be a "sun-skirter" that would pass less than 14 million kilometres from our star on 13 January.

Comet 2024 G3 ATLAS has made international headlines ... It also passes "exceptionally close" to the sun during its latest orbit - less than 9 million miles - in mid-January 2025.

“It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit,” he wrote on Instagram. “Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit.” Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner imaged the comet a few days prior. There have ...

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit," Pettit wrote. If you fancy your chances of catching a glimpse of the comet before it disappears for millennia, you can track its position in the ...