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Origin story: All comets come from the same place next to the Sun
Comets can be found flying all over the solar system, but all of them could have originated in the …
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European Spacecraft Becomes The First Ever To Rendezvous With A Comet
"After ten years, five months and four days traveling towards our destination, looping around the S…
Dina Spector
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Humans Are About To Land A Probe On A Comet - Here's The Incredibly Tricky Process To Make It Happen
Although Philae is not the first probe to make contact with a comet, it is the first probe to land …
Jessica Orwig
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Tomorrow, Humans Will Land A Probe On A Comet - Here's The Incredibly Tricky '7 Hours Of Terror' That Takes
Although Philae is not the first probe to make contact with a comet, it is the first probe to land …
Jessica Orwig
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First Images Of Comet Coming In From Philae Lander
Ten years ago, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta spacecraft to intercept a comet named…
Jessica Orwig
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How to watch tomorrow's meteor shower created by a rogue comet that could be from another solar system
To glimpse the meteors all you have to do is lie on your back and keep your eyes peeled in the dire…
Jessica Orwig
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A NASA Probe Is Spinning Out Of Control After Handlers Lose Contact
Deep Impact is the first space mission to look inside a comet. In July 2005, an instrument released…
Dina Spector
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This alcohol-laced comet spewed 500 wine bottles' worth of booze per second
So tracing the ingredients for the origin of life all the way back to comets and asteroids that for…
Kelly Dickerson
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Scientists have measured a comet's impenetrable shield in action for the 1st time
They also found that Comet 67P has more potassium but less calcium than other comets of its kind. T…
Jessica Orwig
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Humans Are About To Land A Probe On A Comet For The First Time - Here's How To Watch Live
Here's a handy infographic showing the steps of Philae's 7-hour descent, starting at 9:03 GMT (4:03…
Jessica Orwig
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites photobombed Comet Neowise in a photographer's striking image
Starlink satellites interrupted a photo of Comet Neowise. Astronomers fear the same will happen to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble space telescope just took incredible photos of a visiting comet from another star system
"New comets are always unpredictable," Max Mutchler, another member of the Hubble team, said in the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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It's A Race Against Time To Get Philae's Most Important Comet-Science Experiment Done
The lander has a limited battery life - about 60 hours - but also solar panels that can generate po…
Jessica Orwig
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Humans Have Drilled A Comet For the First Time Ever
There's hope for more experiments by the lander in the future, a very slight hope. The lander had a…
Jessica Orwig
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A new image of a mysterious object careening toward our solar system strongly suggests it's the first comet from another star system
Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer in Crimea, first spotted C/2019 Q4 in the sky on August 30. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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NASA just picked 2 finalists for its next billion-dollar space mission - here's what the projects could accomplish
Dragonfly is a dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the environment on Titan to fly …
Hilary Brueck
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NASA is about to announce the finalists of its next $1 billion space mission
Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear-powered probe that flew…