In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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.