The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

23, and had been named the "Halloween comet" given the possibility that it would be visible in the night sky near the end of October. As the comet approached its perihelion—the closest point in ...

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO ...

So, much of the damage was done before it got close to the sun, giving our nearest star a partial pass on being the full cause of the Halloween comet's demise. However, the sun's intense heat and ...

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In fact, some estimated it would break apart as soon as it got too close to the Sun, and that is exactly what happened. What we didn’t really expect, though, was to be able to see the comet ...

NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun. Astronomers have been tracking the so-called ...