When comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was first discovered in late September, it was almost immediately identified as a member of the ...

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 ...

However, the comet’s tail could survive and become a headless comet. Such comets are not unique, with Comet Lovejoy disintegrating before Christmas in 2011, Space.com wrote.

The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec. 2011, remains the only Kreutz Path comet to have survived its brush with the sun.

A handful of larger sungrazing comets have been observed surviving their close pass by the sun, such as comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy in 2011. Initially discovered using a ground telescope ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), nicknamed the "Halloween comet," disintegrated on Monday during its closest approach of the sun. An ESA and NASA project captured the comet's final moments. A comet ...

The most recent one was Comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy in 2011. NASA's SOHO also watched this one happen, and so you can you. The comet, which is much brighter in SOHO's view than the Halloween comet was ...

The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in December 2011, remains the only Kreutz Path comet to have survived its ...

Astronomers believe that these Kreutz Path comets are all the remains of a much larger comet that disintegrated sometime in the past. The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec. 2011, ...