A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ...

Are you ready to see a comet lose its head? While comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS shines in the post-sunset night sky, another comet — called comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) and nicknamed the “Halloween comet ...

This slowly destabilizes the object and causes it to break apart into fragments that are loosely bound together by gravity. Eventually, these fragments separate and are scattered across the comet ...

Comets are small rocks held together by gravity, and these destabilizing forces allow the comet to fall apart as it heats ... and then the Sun breaks it down for you," he said.

Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Jiang Feibo/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) The original “Halloween comet,” comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), may have mostly disintegrated as it got ...