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.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...

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

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets. Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 alien star systems ...

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s next collaboration “The Devil in the White City” is taking shape once again, as 20th Century Studios has boarded the project. Scorsese and DiCaprio ...

The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, will carry the 23 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, deploying them there about 64 minutes after liftoff. Related: Starlink satellite train: how to see ...

Considered a long-period comet, Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS took about 160,000 years to orbit the Sun, but it won’t be returning. "This comet is not coming back because it's basically destroyed. All that's ...

New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...

Dark comets have become a buzzworthy subject among astronomers since researchers announced the discovery of seven additional examples of these mysterious objects. In direct observations, they seem to ...