At 1:52 a.m. EDT Monday, a washing-machine-size, copper-fortified spacecraft slammed into Comet Tempel 1 at 23,000 mph (37,000 km/h), blasting a crater and creating a bright plume of gas and dust ...

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This week a very large asteroid officially described as “potentially hazardous” will come very close to Earth. Chances are it will miss us, but we can’t be totally certain until it actually does. And ...

In the early nineteenth century, scientists first uncovered evidence of the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs at some point in the distant past. It appeared as though there had been some ...

When it comes to slamming space probes into comets, astronomers — like Boy Scouts — prefer to be prepared. As part of that preparation, a team of researchers has been using a giant gun to hurl ...

NASA's veteran Deep Impact probe may have chased its last comet. The spacecraft's handlers lost contact with Deep Impact — which slammed an impactor into Comet Tempel 1 in 2005, made a close flyby of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You don't have to be a scientist tograb a front row seat when the NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft ...

NASA kept its comet-crunching Deep Impact spacecraft on course Wednesday for what could be an encore performance. While the space agency's headquarters has not approved a specific future mission, it ...

On Friday, NASA officially abandoned its attempts to regain contact with the Deep Impact comet probe and have declared the mission over. The space agency lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A former comet-slammingspacecraft will swing by Earth on New Year's Eve before starting ...