Experts had warned that the comet may disintegrate as it passes the sun, before it has the chance to be visible to Earth-dwellers. Astronomer Dr. Qicheng Zhang at Flagstaff, Arizona's Lowell ...

Scientists called this comet a true "sungrazer" because it passed within 1% of Earth's distance to the Sun. Comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS "has been completely vaporized as a result," NASA said.

Experts have warned that the comet may disintegrate as it passes the Sun, before it has the chance to be visible to Earth-dwellers. The sun-grazer comet, dubbed C/2024 S1 (Atlas), is expected to ...

28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final moments were captured by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was discovered ...

The comet reportedly reached perihelion at 7:30 a.m. ET, two days later than anticipated. "C/2024 S1 is a true sungrazer," NASA wrote. "It passed within 1% of Earth’s distance to the Sun ...

The comet reached its perihelion on Monday at 7:30 a.m. ET and was completely vaporized after passing within 1% of Earth’s distance from the sun, less than 1 million miles (1.5 million ...

Gordon Johnston, a former program executive at NASA, said it’s not known whether the comet will become visible again from Earth, noting it will reach a point so close to the sun that the sunligh ...

Models predicted that the comet would glow brighter than Venus by the holiday, but on October 24, ATLAS flew past Earth and swung around the sun. NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO ...

Scientists called this comet a true "sungrazer" because it passed within 1% of Earth's distance to the Sun. Comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS "has been completely vaporized as a result," NASA said.

ESA/NASA’s Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft spied comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS (entering from bottom right) as it darted toward the Sun. The comet reached its perihelion, or closest approach of the Sun ...