Will it meet a fiery death – or survive – when it whips around the sun on Thursday? The icy comet will be only about 1 million miles away from the sun’s super-hot surface during its close encounter on ...

WASHINGTON – Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old. The comet, which excited astronomers ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers slated to meet this week to discuss observing plans for Comet ISON may not have much to talk about. The so-called "Comet of the Century" may already ...

There were hopes over the weekend that ISON might have survived its close encounter with the sun. But "with more than a little sadness," the space... Comet ISON Is No More, NASA Says Comet ISON, a ...

The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON), built and managed for NASA by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, lifted off at 8:10pm EDT from Fort Sumner, N.M., on a mission that ...

The Comet ISON appears to have survived after disappearing and being thought dead. New NASA photos show the comet emerging from behind the sun smaller and dimmer, but still throwing a big light trail.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old. The comet, which excited ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comet ISON is teasing the solar system as it dances with the sun and it’s giving astronomers mixed signals. Will it meet a fiery death — or survive — when it whips around the sun on ...