Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...

At its closest, the comet was over three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than the Earth, but is now on its way back out of the solar system towards the ...

That's less than a third of Mercury’s average distance from the sun. Jan. 13 will also see comet ATLAS G3's closest approach to Earth, potentially shining as brightly as magnitude -4.5. That ...

That’s so close that the comet may appear brighter than the stars. In fact, the comet’s perihelion, or its closest proximity to the Sun in its orbit, is three times closer than Mercury’s. At the time ...