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 ...

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a centaur, a class of objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. However, it displays ...

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days ...

as NASA provided two GIFs for the public's viewing pleasure. The first shows the comet entering from the bottom right corner as it approaches perihelion -- the part of its orbit where it's closest ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

But as the comet, composed of ice, frozen gases and rock, came closer to its perihelion — the nearest point to the sun in its orbit — over the past few days, it broke apart into chunks until ...

Those pieces sustain the original comet's legacy by following the same risky orbit, bringing them to the edge of the Sun's fiery atmosphere with every perihelion—an orbit's closest point to the Sun.

A comet that was hoped to be visible to the naked eye over the coming days has been gobbled up by the sun. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), passed its closest point to Earth on October 24 ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its orbit. There were earlier hopes that the comet, ...