It’s the last chance to see this one,” Joe Masiero, a solar system scientist for the California Institute of Technology’s IPAC, told SFGATE. “It’s not coming back.” The NASA-funded ATLAS survey ...

Comet 3I/Atlas is believed to have originated from the Oort Cloud, a distant region filled with icy bodies that lie at the outer reaches of our solar system. This ancient reservoir of comets serves as ...

Anyone with a backyard telescope should be able to view the comet — which will appear as something between a bright star and a faint smudge — from now until January, especially in the two hours before ...