Comets
Scientists analyzing a mysterious pebble from Egypt have made a startling find: it's the nucleus of a comet.
It's a space engineer's worst nightmare — losing contact with your spacecraft — and it looks like it just happened to NASA. The government space agency has officially put an end to its Deep Impact mission after losing contact with the space probe in August.
Are we aliens? We may be (by "we," we mean organic life), according to a new study on the life-scattering possibilities of comets and meteors.
Astronomers at Columbia's Universidad de Antioquia have discovered what have since been dubbed "Lazarus" comets, along with their origin: the comet graveyard. The team's findings may explain why some activity of comet-like objects has been spotted in the solar system.
Scientists are still puzzled about the mysterious nature of the centaurs or the sub-planetary bodies that are orbiting the Sun between planets Jupiter and Neptune.
Scientists are still puzzled about the mysterious nature of the centaurs or the sub-planetary bodies that are orbiting the Sun between planets Jupiter and Neptune.
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged and modeled a dust-filled region around a young star. The kicker? It's the first real-time look at the birth and growth process of larger cosmic objects such as comets and planets.
Comet Lovejoy's trip into our sun 1 1/2 years ago not only helped it earn title of "The Great Christmas Comet of 2011," it has revealed secrets about the sun's magnetic field itself, according to a new study.
Two comets will light up our skies in the coming year.
