Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com ...

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as ...

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

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

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

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Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab ... Comet’s distance from the sun: 57.8 million miles (93.1 million kilometers) Comet’s distance from Earth: 48 million miles (77.2 ...

Now, thanks to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, we know for sure how and when comet ATLAS met its demise.

NASA says a recently discovered comet has broken apart as it approached the sun. The space agency said Tuesday its ...

The comet's final moments were captured by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO ... it passed within 1% of the Earth's distance from the sun, less than ...