On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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 ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

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.

Halley's Comet, one of the most well-known comets, orbits about every 75 years. Comet Encke, meanwhile, orbits the sun every 3.3 years. Another comet, known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Possibly the most well-known comet is Halley’s Comet, as it is easy to notice without professional equipment and passes near Earth about every 75 years. The next time Halley’s will be around ...

such as the October Orionids which are particles from the famous Halley’s comet. The next meteor shower, the Southern Taurids, is expected to peak on the night of November 4 into the early ...

A NASA and European spacecraft watched as a newly discovered comet dubbed the "Halloween comet" met its demise after its close approach to the Sun. According to NASA, the SOHO spacecraft captured ...

The Halloween comet, C/2024 S1, captured by a 0.43-m telescope. Credit: Exoplanetaryscience / CC BY 4.0 A comet known as the “Halloween comet,” or Comet C/2024 S1, broke apart on Monday (28th October, ...