Comets
About that Giant Planet Possibly Hiding in the Outer Solar System…
[/caption] An old story got new legs this week as word went viral of a possible new 9th planet in…
Romantic Valentines Day Encounter Looms with Icy Comet
[/caption] At last, NASA embraces a romantic rendezvous in the dark void of deep space. And soon the whole world…
Mission Complete: NEOWISE Concludes Hunt for Near-Earth Objects
[/caption] The WISE spacecraft has completed a special mission called NEOWISE, looking for small bodies in the solar system, and…
Stardust NExT Targets Valentines Day Encounter with Comet Tempel 1
[/caption] After a more than decade long journey of 6 billion kilometers, hopes are high for a celestial date in…
35 Days to STARDUST-NeXT Valentines Day Flyby of Comet Tempel 1
[/caption] 35 Days and Counting ! NASA’s re-purposed STARDUST- NeXT spacecraft is set to flyby Comet Tempel 1 at a…
SOHO Finds Its 2000th Comet
[/caption] From a NASA Press Release: As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New…
Asteroid Scheila Sprouts a Tail and Coma
[/caption] When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it turns out to be a comet, of course. Has this…
Fizzy Comet Hartley 2 is Throwing Snowballs
[/caption] As Jessica Sunshine said, Comet Hartley 2 might be the smallest of the five comets that our spacecraft have…
Hartley 2 in Motion: Stunning Morph Animation of Flyby Images
The folks from UnmannedSpaceflight.com have done it again. Daniel Machácek created this wonderful animation from just the five initial images…
First Close Images of Hartley 2: It’s a Peanut with Jets
[/caption] NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft came within 700 kilometers (435 miles) of Comet Hartley 2 at 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401…