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

The brightest comet in nearly 20 years- comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) — is expected to reach its peak brilliance later this week. Skygazers and enthusiasts across the globe are in anticipation of a ...

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...

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 ...

The comet discovered last year using the Asteroid Terrestial-Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, is relatively rare because of how close it got to the Sun in mid-January, passing about one-third ...

As Comet G3 approaches perihelion, it will venture extremely close, only 0.1 Earth-Sun distances, to our star. There’s a genuine concern (or thrill, depending on your perspective) that it could burn ...

Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has generated so much excitement about how bright and visible it might be that it has even been billed as the "comet of the century" in some quarters. Although that is ...

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 ...