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

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...

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 ...

Johnston strongly urges comet-gazing hopefuls to not use binoculars or telescopes during this period, as looking at the sun using these instruments could damage your eyes. If the comet does break ...

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 ...

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 ...