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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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This Comet Stinks
The chemicals that make up these nasty smells on Earth are usually pretty dense whereas the chemica…
Jessica Orwig
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Astronomer discovers rare comet near the sun during total solar eclipse
An astronomer has spotted a little tiny speck flying past the Sun which is a recently discovered ra…
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The space rock that doomed the dinosaurs was shrapnel from a comet that flew too close to the sun, a Harvard study suggests
The origin of the space rock that killed the dinosaurs has been a mystery. A new study suggests it …
Aylin Woodward
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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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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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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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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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This little probe landed on a comet 300 million miles away and found the building blocks of life
It's possible that this batch of data could mark the end of the mission since Philae didn't exactly…
Kelly Dickerson
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Mysterious pits on this comet are actually enormous sinkholes
The team analyzed data collected by the Rosetta spacecraft, which began orbiting comet 67P/Churyumo…
Lydia Ramsey
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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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Comet Neowise, a meteor, and a mysterious aurora-like phenomenon called STEVE all share the night sky in one incredible photo
From her farm in Manitoba, Donna Lach captured an action-packed image of space interacting with Ear…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A mission almost 30 years in the making has just profoundly changed what we know about comets
The probe bounced high off the comet twice before tumbling down to a completely unintended landing …
Kelly Dickerson
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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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Tonight, a meteor shower created by a mysterious comet will reach its peak - here's how to watch
To figure out whether you're seeing a Delta Aquarid meteor or a Perseid meteor, you can trace the m…
Ali Sundermier
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Next week, a meteor shower created by a mysterious comet will reach its peak - here's how to watch
To figure out whether you're seeing a Delta Aquarid meteor or a Perseid meteor, you can trace the m…
Ali Sundermier
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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…