Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a non-threat.

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) was spotted by the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft 'Something the overwhelming ...