"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...
Mercury Comet Cyclone spent decades in its owner's backyard, but a neighbor recently pulled it out and got it running ...
while the head of the comet (called the coma) easily rivaled the planet Mercury — which was then shining at magnitude -0.3 — in brightness. The comet reached perihelion on Jan. 13 at around ...
A comet believed to be in its death throes could briefly be seen over Tasmania this week as it hurtled through the cosmos in ...
G3 has mesmerized astronomers and amateur skygazers for months as the world tried to spot the bright comet in the sky nearing its fatal encounter with the Sun.
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.
NASA and ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft snapped a video of the comet as it passed three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than ...