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In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the...
This image depicts the primary landing site on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko chosen for the European Space Agency...
This image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact...
Comets. Throughout history they have inspired curiosity and fear -- fascination and dread. While the movement of the...
This frame from a movie shows the progression of NASA NEOWISE survey in the mission first year following its restart...
First observed earlier this year, the 3I/ATLAS comet is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar...
This montage is an artist's conception of progressive views of the Comet Kohoutek based on sketches and a...
Stereo image pair of comet Wild 2 as seen by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA...
NASA Deep Impact spacecraft High- and Medium-Resolution Imagers HRI and MRI captured multiple jets emanating from...
This frame from a movie sequence of images from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MRO shows comet C/2013 A1 Siding...
This artist impression shows the orbits of planets and comets around the star 61 Vir, superimposed on a view from...
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken at 7:00 a.m. PDT 10 a.m. EDT, after NASA EPOXI mission flew by.
Researchers at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, use a cryostat instrument, nicknamed...
This image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen through the clear filter of the medium resolution imager camera on NASA Deep...
This pair of images shows the before-and-after comparison of the part of comet Tempel 1 that was hit by the impactor...
This close-up view of comet Hartley 2 was taken at 7:00 a.m. PDT 10 a.m. EDT, after NASA EPOXI mission flew by.
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image of an unusual comet that experiences frequent outbursts, which...
This image from an animation shows comet Tempel 1 as seen through the clear filter of the medium resolution imager...
Comet Tempel 1 as seen by the NASA Deep Impact impactor targeting sensor at 7:44 Universal Time, July 3, 2005.
This image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen through the clear filter of the medium resolution imager camera on NASA Deep...
How did scientists know that NASA Voyager spacecraft entered interstellar space? Increase in the density of charged...
An optical color image of galaxies is seen here overlaid with X-ray data magenta from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic...
A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet – an effect not seen...
An expanded view of comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) is shown here. The WISE spacecraft observed this comet on April...