The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

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

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.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days before and after.

Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a ...

A geomagnetic storm, the largest supermoon of the year, a comet and an eerie fireball were among the skywatching treats that haunted the night sky of.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) was hoped to be visible to the naked eye in the next few days, but unfortunately disintegrated as it skimmed past the sun.

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shone as a "Christmas Comet" in December 2011. Image taken from the ISS. Only spotted on Sept. 27 by astronomers at the ATLAS survey in Hawaii, C/2024 S1 (Atlas) is a large “Kreutz sungrazer ...

A comet nicknamed the “Halloween comet” disintegrated ... Battams is also principal investigator for the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph instrument suite, a set of three telescopes ...

In addition to the comet, a new supermoon will appear this week, and it will be the largest full moon of the year. Here’s when the event will happen and a look at the difference between a ...

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