while the head of the comet (called the coma) easily rivaled the planet Mercury — which was then shining at magnitude -0.3 — in brightness. The comet reached perihelion on Jan. 13 at around ...

That's less than a third of Mercury’s average distance from the sun. Jan. 13 will also see comet ATLAS G3's closest approach to Earth, potentially shining as brightly as magnitude -4.5. That ...

From its very inception into the Ford family in 1960, the Mercury Comet was the model that Ford apparently couldn’t figure ...

NASA and ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft snapped a video of the comet as it passed three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than ...

Mercury redesigned the Comet in 1964, but in addition to the new look, the big news this year was the introduction of the top-of-the-line Cyclone trim level. Considered a performance-oriented ...