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 ...

Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye ... The Planetary Society calculations indicate Comet C/2024 G3, nicknamed Comet Atlas G3, could be the brightest comet of 2025 ...

As the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter has the strongest influence after the Sun, but even smaller planets like ...

A new comet, expected to be the brightest of the ... Earlier this month, a crescent moon that slipped over Saturn was visible for people in Europe, northern Africa and parts of Greenland and ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

And Saturn’s very faint, so it looks kind of just a normal yellow ... IRA FLATOW: Let’s move on to another event that’s getting a lot of buzz, and I’m talking about the ATLAS comet. What’s the deal ...

"It will be really easy to find Saturn with a pair of binoculars because it will be really close in the same field as Venus." To top it off you might also catch a comet at the same time near the ...