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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Researchers have simulated how comets pinballing from one planet to another could deliver critical organic molecules to exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
A s of today, October 30, 2025, the world is holding its breath. The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is currently hidden by the sun, having just passed its closest approach yesterday. We are ...