You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 A3 ...

A dazzling comet left behind a dramatic dust tail as it swept around the sun, new photos reveal. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

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

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

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.

FARGO — News media have done a good job recently of reporting on Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in recent days, generating a lot of public interest in the process. One fact, though, has likely been ...

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 ...

Most long-period comets pose no threat to Earth. They might appear bright in the evening or morning sky, but their orbits don't cross Earth's orbit, so there is no risk of impact. But some long ...

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.

Oct. 30, 2024 — In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach ...

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.