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.

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the remnants of the materials that formed the solar systems’s planets.

Large planets like Saturn and Jupiter have massive gravitational pulls that can destabilize other planets, possibly nudging them to the outer reaches of the Solar System where the Oort Cloud is ...