Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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.

This meant Philae had indeed landed on the comet (for the second time) and was still transmitting data. The following day, analyses of the images from OSIRIS, the orbiter's camera that had captured ...

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 ...

Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), an instrument aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), reveal ...

A recently discovered comet that scientists and amateur astronomers hoped would be visible on Halloween was in an orbit a … ...

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 ...

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

The comet, which is much brighter in SOHO's view ... (LASCO refers to the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment instrument, a set of three coronagraph telescopes launched in 1995 ...