Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the ...

We got a rare glimpse of this process in 2020, when Comet C/2019 Y4 shattered to smithereens when it drew near the Sun under the watchful eye of the Hubble Space Telescope. A notice posted to ...

Back on Oct. 10, Space.com published an article indicating that this comet — which belongs to the Kreutz family of sungrazing comets — was in the process of disintegration and would likely not ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

a space observatory operated by NASA and the European Space Agency spied its demise. The comet is thought to be part of a family of comets that pass incredibly close to the sun. The Associated ...

But by that time, the damage may already have been done and nothing may remain on the comet's return to deep space. In addition, the Great Comets of 1680, 1811, 1843 and 1965 had gloriously bright ...

The comet visits our solar system about every 80,000 years, meaning that it has not been seen from Earth since the Neanderthals were around. A3’s bright look and clear visibility in the sky led ...

The latest update concerning "the other comet" of October 2024 — Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) — is that it continues on target to completely disintegrate before it sweeps around the sun early next Monday.