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NASA EPOXI mission took this image of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 2, 2010. The spacecraft will fly by the comet on Nov....
Pete Schultz, Stardust NExT co-investigator, from Brown University, speaks during a news briefing, Wednesday, Jan....
Joe Ververka, Stardust NExT Principal Investigator, from Cornell University, speaks during a news briefing,...
This image composite shows comet Tempel 1 in infrared light . The infrared picture highlights the warm, or sunlit,...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows three of the many fragments making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3. The...
This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 about 50 minutes after NASA Deep Impact probe smashed into its surface....
The red smudge at the center of this image is the first comet discovered by NASA Wide-Field Infrared Survey...
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the Onboard Scientific Imaging System OSIRIS on the...
These images taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft highlight the diverse features that make up the surface of comet...
61C-05-026 (14 Jan. 1986) --- Astronaut George D. Nelson smiles for a fellow crew man's 35mm camera exposure while...
Carey Lisse, senior astrophysicist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland gives...
Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington gives remarks during a media briefing...
Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, growing more faint, in this...
Hubble Probes Inner Region of Comet Hyakutake
As of mid-November, ISON is officially upon us. Using Hubble, we've taken our closest look yet at the innermost...
NASA image release October 5, 2010 Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September...
This illustration shows a star behind a shattered comet. Observations of the star KIC 8462852 by NASA's Kepler and...
NASA Deep Space 1 flew by comet Borrelly on September 22, 2001 and took these measurements with its plasma...
MARCH 27, 2014: Comet Siding Spring is plunging toward the Sun along a roughly 1-million-year orbit. The comet,...
The Philae lander of the European Space Agency Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7,...
The Philae lander of the European Space Agency Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7,...
This image of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was taken on March 21, 2014, by the narrow-angle camera of the Rosetta...
This image of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was taken on March 20, 2014, by the wide-angle camera of the Rosetta...
This image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen through the clear filter of the medium resolution imager camera on NASA Deep...