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

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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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 ...

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 ...

These are a family of comets that all follow a similar orbit, and make a dangerously close pass of the sun every 500 to 800 years - depending on each comet's orbit.

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 ...

Astronomers have been tracking the comet since it was discovered in September by a telescope in Hawaii. It’s thought to be part of a family of comets that pass incredibly close to the sun. Comets are ...

That was the fate of this comet. It passed at its closest point by Earth on October 24 and headed to an extremely close encounter with the Sun on October 28. The perihelion – the closest point t ...