G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

The bad news is that the while the comet will be at its brightest on Sunday and Monday as it as its closest to the Sun, it also be lost in the Sun's glare. As it rounds the Sun it will come into view ...

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time should spot many new "dark comets" after coming online in ...

The gas heats up because of the sunlight and is then blown off the comet's surface in a process called outgassing. This outgassing brings with it rubble and small dust grains, which reflect sunlight.

ONE of the brightest comets to pass Earth in nearly 20 years could be visible to the naked eye in a once-in-a-lifetime display next week. The space rock, formally known as G3 ATLAS (C/2024), is ...

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to ...

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.

When a comet gets close to the sun, the sunlight heats up the ice, causing it to sublimate, or transition from an ice to a gas. After this transition happens, the gas is blown off the surface of ...

The gas heats up because of the sunlight and is then blown off the comet's surface in a process called outgassing. This outgassing brings with it rubble and small dust grains, which reflect sunlight.