After an extraordinary year of watching full moons, eclipses, meteors and northern lights, a comet will be viewable right off the bat in 2025. It's called comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which Space.com ...

A newly observed interstellar comet is the most pristine visitor from outer space ever seen in our Solar System, according to a pair of studies released Tuesday detailing its unique characteristics.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Skywatchers can catch a glimpse of a one-in-160,000-year comet in January, the brightest of its kind in nearly 20 years. Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) was the third comet discovered in ...

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.

The European Space Agency is to launch another mission to a comet. After the hugely successful Rosetta encounter with the icy dirt-ball known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, officials have ...

Ten years ago the European Space Agency launched Rosetta, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft on a mission to meet a comet. That comet? 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It finally accomplished that goal in ...