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Comet Elenin: Just Passing By

[/caption] It starts out innocently enough: a small speck against a field of background stars, barely noticeable in the image…

13 years ago

[/caption] Ah, Pluto. Seems every time we think we've got it figured out, it has a new surprise to throw…

14 years ago

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[/caption]What are comets made of? Good question! Comet nuclei are loose collections of ice, dust and small rocky particles, ranging…

15 years ago

[/caption] NASA scientists studying the comet samples returned by the Stardust spacecraft have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of…

15 years ago

[/caption] Back in 1996, astronomers discovered a strange object in the asteroid belt. They decided it was either a "lost"…

15 years ago

On December 2nd, 1995 a large joint ESA and NASA mission was launched to gain an insight to the dynamics…

17 years ago