Scientists on the trail of comets in deep space "reluctantly" announced Friday an end to NASA's Deep Impact mission after nearly a decade that included celestial fly-bys and hundreds of thousands of ...

When it comes to asteroid disaster movies, many fans immediately think of Armageddon, with its high-octane action and star-studded cast. However, if you're seeking a more nuanced portrayal of humanity ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged ...

A rare visitor from deep space has swept through the inner solar system, offering astronomers a fleeting look at material ...

The mystery around interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has grown again after Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has again made an bizarre claim. Ahead of the comet's closest approach to Earth on December 19, he ...

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 ...

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is on course for a July 4 encounter with comet Tempel 1, but mission officials are trying to determine why one of the probe's telescopes has not focused properly, the ...

Deep Impact will have traveled 268 million miles from the time it is launched aboard an unmanned rocket until it intersects with Comet Tempel 1 just beyond the orbit of Mars, at a point more than 80 ...

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 ingredients of the solar system ...

Bensch, Frank, Melnick, Gary J., Neufeld, David A., Harwit, Martin, Snell, Ronald L., Patten, Brian M., and Tolls, Volker. 2007. "Submillimeter Wave Astronomy ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of every comet lies a remnant of the dawn of the solar system. Or is that remnants? Astronomers don't know, but the answer would give them a clearer picture of exactly ...