Here’s how it works. The term "perihelion" describes the point in an astronomical body's orbit where it is nearest to the sun. Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun), the ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern ...

Perihelion is an annual astronomical event when Earth finds itself at the closest distance possible toward the Sun. Usually it falls between the dates of January 2 and 4 as Earth is around 147 ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years. Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is "notoriously hard" to predict, but ...

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 G3 ATLAS passed its closest point to the Sun, may brighten enough to be visible to naked eye in coming days this week ...

In March we get to watch as four planets group into two pairs. Three of the planets are in the sky and one is right under our feet. Mars reaches opposition on March 3rd, the day Earth passes it ...