Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

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

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun today (Oct. 28) in this eerie footage from the Solar and ...

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 ...

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.

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

WASHINGTON — A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week disintegrated before the ...

When it first appeared in September, the comet seemed favorable. An outburst brightened the cosmic snowball, making it appear larger than average Kreutz fragments. Predictions for the comet had it ...

As the comet approached its perihelion—the closest point in its orbit to the Sun—at around 7:30 a.m. ET on Monday, however, it was completely vaporized by the sun's intense heat and radiation.

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