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

The G3 Atlas comet has returned to our galaxy for a once-in-a-lifetime event and is now visible in the Southern Hemisphere.

A comet that passes by the Earth once every 71 years is currently visible in the night sky using binoculars or a small ...

The Triangulum Galaxy, also informally known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy 2.7 million light-years from Earth ...

A photo taken from the International Space Station captures the brilliant comet known as C/2024 G3 ATLAS, which could be the ...

Perfect weather has opened up Adelaide’s skies for an event of a lifetime that won’t happen again for about 160,000 years.

The Sun-skirter comet C/2024 G3 is visible from the southern hemisphere this week as it makes its second-ever swing around ...

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 ...

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.

Often, star-grazing comets such as C/2024 G3 do not survive the encounter with the Sun, though astronomers believe that this one did so in the past. This comet's period is 135,000 years – long for a ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A family looks in awe as the Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, the ... [+] brightest comet of the ...