This is similar to how Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) disintegrated in 2011, which survived its journey a mere 87,000 miles above the sun's surface, but fell apart a few days later. Do you have a tip on a ...

Comet Lovejoy was expected to vaporize but the 660-foot-wide rock was filmed making a great escape 'It was an extraordinary event' said one astronomer The comet came closer to the Sun than the ...

But on Jan. 2, according to veteran Australian comet observer, Terry Lovejoy, the comet apparently was in the midst of an outburst in brightness, and indeed just one day later, it had brightened by ...

But on Jan. 2, according to veteran Australian comet observer, Terry Lovejoy, the comet apparently was in the midst of an outburst in brightness, and indeed just one day later, it had brightened ...

This is similar to how Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) disintegrated in 2011, which survived its journey a mere 87,000 miles above the sun's surface, but fell apart a few days later. Do you have a tip ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Astronomers believe that these Kreutz Path comets are all the remains of a much larger comet that disintegrated sometime in the past. The comet Lovejoy, which reached its perihelion in Dec. 2011, ...

Earlier this year, comet C/2014 Q2, also called Comet Lovejoy, passed close to Earth, making it one of the brightest comets in the night sky at that time. This photo was taken by 15-year-old ...