The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...

On05, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed object from outside the Solar System, passed closest to the Sun on October 30, 2025, revealing unusual water production. Observations by the ...

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

(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 ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

When interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS exhibited some peculiar movements, speculation arose regarding potential alien origins.

The comet C/2025 R3, visible without telescopes, is set to approach Earth in April 2026, promising a spectacular celestial ...

A rogue comet from another star system is rewriting the textbook on how cosmic visitors behave deep inside our solar system.

(Phys.org) —NASA today announced the end of operations for the Deep Impact spacecraft, history's most traveled deep-space comet hunter, after trying unsuccessfully for more than a month to regain ...