Unfortunately, the comet appears to have disintegrated as it reached its perihelion on October 28, melting into nothingness as it skimmed only 750,000 miles from the surface of our star.

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.

In the second week of 2025, we could see a new object grace the skies as comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 gets close to the sun. In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet ...

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS ...

The original “Halloween comet,” comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), may have mostly disintegrated as it got close to the sun on Monday, Oct. 28, but there’s another spooky-looking object in the night ...

Reminder: Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is on track to briefly reach magnitude -4.2 when it skirts the sun on Jan. 13, 2025. Possibly visible with difficulty) from temperate north latitudes on Jan. 11 ...

Stargazers are anxiously waiting to see if Comet Atlas brightens in the night sky to become one of the greatest comets in a century. Or not. While Comet Atlas is still visible only with a ...