The human family was treated to comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) during October, a visitor from the outer reaches of the ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

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 ...

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

UTICA – Two days after a substantial coaching shake-up, the Utica Comets exhibited some of their character on the ice. While ...

A NASA and European spacecraft watched as a newly discovered comet dubbed the "Halloween comet" met its demise after its close approach to the Sun.

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 ...

Like Icarus, comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after flying too close the sun. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward ...

But, if you missed it Wednesday, don’t worry; you still have a few more days to catch it. Comet C/2023 A3 — known simply as comet A3 — was first discovered last year and was first visible ...

That’s because Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), or the “Halloween comet,” which many thought might turn out to be as bright and visible as Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS, has turned out to be a bit of a ...

Comet C/2024 S1 was first discovered on September 27, 2024, in Hawaii by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Laser Alert System (ATLAS) project, and was first catalogued as an asteroid. However ...

open image in gallery U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instrument, LASCO C3, captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and the ...