The comet is one of many sungrazing bodies to venture a bit too close to the Sun for comfort. Astronomers first spotted C/2024 S1 via the University of Hawaii's ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact ...

Sungrazing comets have been observed possibly as far back as the year 371 BC. A comet seen by Aristotle and Ephorus may have ...

Astronomers are eagerly awaiting to learn the fate of comet C/2024 G3 Atlas as it approaches perihelion – the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, four times closer than Mercury – in the ...

Sungrazing comets are those that pass within about 850,000 miles of the sun. Many of them follow a similar orbit, called the Kreutz Path, according to NASA. Astronomers believe that these Kreutz Path ...