The Oort Cloud comet — also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — will be lighting up the sky starting Oct. 9 Stargazers will be able to witness a "once-in-a-lifetime" comet in the night sky this ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

October is giving Hoosiers a chance to see possibly the brightest comet of 2024, according to NASA, before it fades away into the outer edge of our solar system where it won't return in our lifetime.

I saw and photographed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) last night. Having emerged from the sun's glare, Friday, Oct. 11, was the first chance for observers in the northern hemisphere to see it ...

During October and November ... It's all about size. A comet is a snowball containing dust, gas and rock that orbits the sun, occasionally coming into the solar system. When it does, the sun's ...

the "comet of the century" that stunned stargazers in mid-October. The last time Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) passed Earth, humans were beginning to spread across the world after leaving Africa.

Orionids is a reasonably active meteor shower that happens mostly during October. It also has the distinction of coming from the famous Halley's Comet just like the Eta Aquariids shower.

The Orionid meteor shower is active between Sept. 26 to Nov. 22 and will peak on Oct. 20-21 between midnight and dawn, with clear-sky rates of about 20 meteors per hour. Viewing conditions for the ...

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.

Comet ATLAS, or C/2024 G3 to astronomers ... which blazed through the sky last October. Like all comets, C/2024 G3 is a frozen chunk of material left over from the formation of the solar system ...