The Deep Impact impactor spacecraft scored a direct hit on Tempel 1 on July 4, (see page 28). The flyby craft took this picture 67 sec. after the strike with its high-resolution camera. The ejected ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is warming up as it approaches the sun, causing a jet to emerge. The jet is visible in a dramatic new image.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse of the frozen primordial ...

A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas stands apart for many reasons, and another one just got added to the list. This comet could be hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME), according to IFLScience. This ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) will pass through the neck of the great celestial serpent represented by the constellation Serpens ...

Composite images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 orbiting Jupiter in 1994. In 1993, three sky watchers — Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy — discovered a comet orbiting Jupiter. In their honor, it ...