Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

The ATLAS comet is likely a fragment of the Great Comet of 1106—a comet recorded by astronomers in Asia nearly 918 years ago—and is likely from the Oort Cloud, a “giant spherical shell” that NASA ...

So, much of the damage was done before it got close to the sun, giving our nearest star a partial pass on being the full ...

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

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

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

The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...

Johnston strongly urges comet-gazing hopefuls to not use binoculars or telescopes during this period, as looking at the sun using these instruments could damage your eyes. If the comet does break ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and ...

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 ...