A newly discovered comet met its demise during a dangerously close encounter with the Sun, breaking apart into chunks and destroying any hope of being spotted for Halloween. NASA and the European ...

The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a spectacular view of the comet’s dust trail, marking one of the brightest comets seen, second only to Comet McNaught in 2007. This event provided ...

In this photo, it also seems that the comet's ion tail is also visible alongside its prominent dust tail. In addition to trailing long tails of dust and gases behind them, some comets develop an ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A family looks in awe as the Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, the ... [+] brightest comet of the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Comet C/2023 A3 - Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is seen in the sky above the artwork Dodekalitten at Lolland ... [+] southern Zealand ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

7 through Oct. 13 and shows the sun blocked out in the middle. Comet A3 -- a cosmic snowball of dust, gases and ice -- soars across the upper right of the frame. "The comet's nucleus is clearly ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS ... was essentially a "dirty snowball," a frozen body composed of gases, rocks and dust left over from the earliest days of our solar system some 4.6 billion years ...

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final ...

Like Icarus, comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after flying too close the sun. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward ...

Scientists continue to piece together the moon's complex history using lunar samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions over half a century ago. A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by ...

While many backyard astronomers were waking up early to catch a glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its stunning anti-tail, another comet was making its way through our solar system.