European Space Agency and Nasa's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured the comet as it had a solar flyby in space. The comet made its closest pass to the Sun, or perihelion, on ...

The comet is making its first documented flyby of our planet, according to NASA. With its 80,000-year orbit, the celestial body would have been last seen from Earth at the time of the Neanderthals.

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 ...

Keep your eye on the sky tonight. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. Monday, Jan. 13 is when the comet will ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

The sun might burn the comet up, making us the first, last, and only humans to ever see it. But if the ball of space ice survives its fiery flyby, it will reappear in the Southern Hemisphere at ...

there are signs it might have broken up after the comet’s flyby the sun. Also, in space news NASA recently shared images from the robotic explorers a recent image of a color-enhanced view of ...

If it survives its unusually close passage of the Sun, Comet C/2024 G3 has the potential to become the brightest comet of 2025, reaching a magnitude of -4.5—about the same brightness as Venus.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Wednesday, February 1, will be an intriguing day for skywatchers as a rare, green comet ...