By: Staff, SPACE.com Published: 04/15/2013 12:30 PM EDT on SPACE.com A comet that had a slim chance of crashing into Mars in 2014 will almost cert...
Twenty years ago, a cosmic oddball was photographed by a team of three scientists. The dry language of the announcement in the International Astronomi...
It's not often South Floridians get to see a snowball, much less one tearing through the twilit sky at a dizzying 30,000-plus mph. But this week a ce...
By: Tariq Malik Published: 02/06/2013 06:52 AM EST on SPACE.com A NASA spacecraft has captured its first photos of comet ISON, an icy wanderer tha...
It's being called the "comet of the century" -- a dazzling astronomical display that may prove to be brighter than the full moon. Comet ISON may give ...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 11/12/2012 03:13 PM EST on SPACE.com A cosmic mystery around the star named 49 CETI has puzzled astronomers nearly ...
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/23/2012 03:04 PM EDT on LiveScience What seemed like evidence of prehistoric cosmic impact...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/13/2012 07:07 AM EDT on SPACE.com A young star that is home to at least one alien planet is also ringed by a v...
What's it like to land on a comet? Thanks to the European Space Agency, we now have a pretty good idea. It's produced this animated video that shows w...
WASHINGTON -- A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun. Comet Lov...
NASA has announced plans for a new way to study comets by harpooning the flying pieces of rock and ice sometime in the near future. According to Wi...
Poor comet, we hardly knew ye. Just hours after being discovered, this comet met its end, barreling into the sun and likely disintegrating. Amateur...
The AP reports the U.S. Department of Immigration apprehended Santa Claus attempting to illegally enter the United States.
Is the newly-discovered Kreutz Sungrazer comet doomed? From an image sequence captured by the Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory (SOHO), it sure lo...
For the first time, a building block of proteins -- and hence of life as we know it -- has been found in a comet. That adds to the prevailing notio...
WASHINGTON — An odd, greenish backward-flying comet is zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges...
I think it's very possible the Bush administration might be willing to make bad financial decisions in the short run just to keep the Republican Party in power.
