Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Comet Ison, which was thought to have vaporized, seems to be alive and kicking. According to NASA on Nov. 29 (KST), the comet was spotted within the sun's orbit. Experts had thought the comet ...

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Less than a week later, images taken with small telescopes are beginning to show Nishimura with a tail on display ... of the sun and the solar wind. Comet ISON famously disappointed humanity ...

The “comet ... plane of orbit around the Sun, the cooled dust and ions get reilluminated by sunlight. This could appear to ...

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit." Astronauts witnessed the brightest ... It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and dust particles created when the comet gets close ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Comet A3, also known as, imaged from the International Space Station on ...

It’s no accident that holidays featuring lights are celebrated in December. This month Venus and Jupiter – and possibly one comet – crank up the wattage for us.

The spectacularly tailed Atlas comet (C/2024 G3) has come close to the Sun. The Atlas comet made another cosmic show as it entered inside Mercury's orbit ... The white tail among the various ...

When their orbit takes them close to the sun they heat up, and then dust and gases form a tail that can stretch millions of ...