The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3 will reach perihelion on January 13. If you thought a meteor shower and four-planet conjunction was it for celestial excitement this month, you thought wrong. Even though we ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years.

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

Thursday, January 30, 2025: The fleeting Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) tried escaping over the horizon in the photograph shot by Patricio Murphy, but it was caught in the reflection of the puddle seen ...

Subaru Telescope’s celebration of its 25th anniversary is wrapping up in March 2025. There have been multiple projects to ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Comet G3 is on its first voyage into the inner solar system, meaning it’s packed with volatile materials that have never been exposed to the Sun’s warmth before. This makes its behavior somewhat ...

It was a comet, the icy siblings of asteroids, and it was 655 million kilometers away but approaching rapidly. It took the name of the observatory that discovered it -- ATLAS. And as 2024 turned ...