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Rosetta Spacecraft Unravels the Mystery of Comet 67P Dust Jets
Massive Comet Set Earth on Fire, Triggered Ice Age 12000 Years Ago
First observed interstellar object is a speedy, cigar-shaped asteroid
Last month, astronomers running the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii spotted an intriguing object moving through our solar system and it became clear pretty quickly that the object, whether it was a comet or an asteroid, had come from outside of our...
Sungrazing Comet Spotted from Two Separate Locations at the Same Time
Sungrazing Comet Spotted from Two Separate Locations at the Same Time
Researchers observe the first known interstellar comet
To date, every comet humanity has seen inside the Solar System has come from the Solar System, whether it's the Kuiper Belt or the billions of comets believed to make up the Oort Cloud. Now, however, it looks like astronomers might have found a comet...
NASA seeks comet ‘crumbs’ with a new detection technique
It's relatively trivial to spot comets, but spotting the dust they leave behind? That's no mean feat -- it's like tracking grains of fast-moving sand on a cosmic-scale beach. NASA, however, might just have a way of mapping that dust. It's developing...