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This image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen through the clear filter of the medium resolution imager camera on NASA Deep...
In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the...
This image shows a comet particle collected by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. The particle is made up of the silicate...
This artist concept shows a view of NASA EPOXI mission spacecraft during its Nov. 4, 2010 flyby of comet Hartley 2....
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft obtained this ultraviolet image of hydrogen...
Comet C/2013 UQ4 Catalina first looked like an asteroid when NASA NEOWISE team first observed it on December 31,...
NASA NEOWISE spacecraft viewed comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy for a second time on January 30, 2015, as the comet passed...
Sunlight illuminates the bowling-pin shaped nucleus from directly below comet Borrelly as seen by NASA Deep Space 1....
he Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1-meter telescope observed comet Tempel 1 on April 11, 2005, when the comet was...
NASA Stardust Navigation Camera captured this anaglyph of the comet Wild 2. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
Dwayne Brown, NASA public affairs officer, moderates a media briefing where panelists outlined how space and...
Padma Yanamandra-Fisher, senior research scientist, Space Science Institute, Rancho Cucamonga Branch, California,...
For the first time, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup...
This first image of comet 103P/Hartley 2 was taken from NASA Deep Impact spacecraft 60 days prior to the spacecraft...
NASA NEOWISE mission captured images of Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring. The infrared pictures reveal a comet that is...
An infrared view from NASA's NEOWISE mission of the Oort cloud comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen). The spacecraft...
A 100 foot-wide (30 meter), 28-million-pound (12.8-million-kilogram) boulder, was found to have moved 460 feet (140...
The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars CRISM aboard NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter obtained this...
These three pairs of images from NASA EPOXI mission demonstrate that a dust jet and gaseous carbon dioxide are being...
This artist depiction shows the close encounter between comet Siding Sprng and Mars in 2014. The comet powerful...
This composite image was taken by NASA Stardust navigation camera 42 hours before its encounter with comet Tempel 1....
These images were taken of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Oct. 19, 2014,...
This image was taken during the close approach phase of NASA Stardust Jan 2, 2004 flyby of comet Wild 2. It is a...
This image from an animiation of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring were taken by the Mast Camera Mastcam on NASA...