Tag Archives: Comets
Pluto Is a ‘Giant Comet’
A Star Disturbed Comets and Asteroids of our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
A Star Disturbed Comets and Asteroids of our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
Hubble spots kamikaze comets plunging into a nearby star
The Hubble telescope helped a team of astronomers discover evidence of comets taking a dive into a young star called HD 172555 that's "only" 95-light years away from Earth. While they didn't exactly see these "kamikaze comets," Hubble detected some f...
Hubble Discovers Comets Plunging onto a Young Star
A star will graze our solar system in a million years
In just over a million years, Earth inhabitants will get a closer look at a star than they might want. Gliese 710 is currently a safe 64 light years away, but scientists discovered in 1999 that the sun-like star was barreling directly toward us at ar...
Comets are Threatening for Earth too
NASA Captures a Comet’s Fiery Death Plunge into the Sun
Rosetta finds key building blocks of life in comet dust
The amino acid glycine, one of the key building blocks of life as we know it, has been found in the "fuzzy atmosphere" of comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency announced today. The findings mean it is likely the glycine was carri...