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iss073e0981051 (Oct. 24, 2025) --- A bright, neon-like aurora radiates above Earth, seemingly absorbing Comet Lemmon...
iss074e0480485 (April 17, 2026) --- This celestial image, taken moments before an orbital sunrise, reveals more than...
NASA's New Millennium Deep Space 1 spacecraft approaching the comet 19P/Borrelly. With its primary mission to serve...
Comet Hale-Bopp is seen in the constellation Lacerta at 5:18 a.m. on March 9, 1997. North is to the left of the...
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will blast into space on a precisely navigated collision course for impact on July 4,...
NASA's NEOWISE mission ended on Aug. 8, 2024, after more than a decade of discovering and tracking near-Earth...
Mercury shines at its brightest for the year, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks, and a bright new comet makes an...
This non-circular pit seen in this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is due to a low angle impact from an...
This image layout depicts changes in the surface of comet Tempel 1, observed first by NASA Deep Impact Mission in...
The impact of an asteroid or comet several hundred million years ago left scars in the landscape that are still...
These images shows comet Tempel 1 as seen through the clear filter of the medium resolution imager camera on NASA...
NASA Deep Impact flyby spacecraft took this image after it turned around to capture last shots of a receding comet...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer discovered an exceptionally long comet-like tail of material trailing behind Mira --...
This image shows NASA Deep Impact impactor probe approaching comet Tempel 1. It is made up of images taken by the...
Many types of craters exist on Mars. Most are generated by impacts of asteroids and comets. However, in this image...
This frame from a movie shows NASA Deep Impact impactor probe approaching comet Tempel 1. It is made up of images...
The eastern rim of this unnamed crater in Claritas Fossae is very degraded, as seen in this image from NASA Mars...
This false-color image reveals the scar of a past major impact of a comet or small asteroid on Europa surface. A...
This image shows a flash produced in a laboratory by a high-velocity bead slamming into dust. Scientists at Ames...
This image shows the initial ejecta that resulted when NASA Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1 on July...
This composite image shows the three small worlds NASA Stardust spacecraft encountered during its 12 year mission....
When NASA Deep Impact probe collided with Tempel 1, a bright, small flash was created, which rapidly expanded above...
This image layout depicts changes in the surface of comet Tempel 1, observed first by NASA Deep Impact Mission in...
This image shows comet Tempel 1 approximately 5 minutes before NASA Deep Impact probe smashed into its surface. It...