Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

Telescopes in space have provided stunning new images of Comet A3, the so-called “comet of the century”.The object – which ...

W hile many backyard astronomers were waking up early to catch a glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its stunning ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” could fragment, lose its head and disintegrate and as it passes ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Johnston also recommends using binoculars or a telescope to view the comet when it’s visible at night, though he suggests not using either instrument when it’s visible during the day as the ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days before and after.

Comets from the Oort Cloud have been discovered in greater numbers in recent years with the help of better instruments used to observe them. Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be followed by a second comet ...

Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a ...

"This comet was likely already a rubber pile by the time it entered SOHO's field of view," said Karl Battams, principal investigator for the LASCO instrument suite on SOHO and lead for NASA's ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...