Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. Now, thanks to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, we know for sure how and when ...

Astronomers using a fleet of world leading telescopes on the ground and in space have captured images of a periodic rocky near-Sun comet breaking apart. This is the first time such a comet has been ...

NASA has captured the moment the 'Great Halloween Comet' was swallowed by the sun. The agency's probe witnessed the comet soar directly into the sun's fiery orbit and disintegrated without a trace ...

Comet 96P entered the bottom of STEREO’s view and crossed it diagonally before leaving on Oct. 28. The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA mission SOHO — short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ...

March 27 (UPI) --A citizen scientist in the Czech Republic on Monday identified a new comet while examining an image captured by the exploratory SOHO spacecraft, which raises to 5,000 the number of ...

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 moments ...