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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

"This comet was likely already a rubber pile by the time it entered SOHO's field of view," said Karl Battams, principal investigator for the LASCO instrument suite on SOHO and lead for NASA's ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its closest approach to the Sun on Monday. The affectionately nicknamed ...