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Comet Outburst Sends Mini Comets Flying

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - 12:40:20 - Anuradha Menon

Like a mushroom shooting out spores, a well-known comet was seen firing multiple "mini comets" that went sailing away at up to 280 miles (451...

Comets to Blame for Moon's Scarred Face

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - 19:36:18 - Ehud Rattner

Icy comets – not rocky asteroids – launched a dramatic assault on the Earth and moon around 3.85 billion years ago, a new study of ancient rocks in...

Eyes on the Stars, Even Under Cloudy Skies

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 - 23:24:25 - Roni Barr

Graduate student Cristina Thomas has been making observations of asteroids using a large NASA telescope in Hawaii, at least once a month for more...

Dawn Asteroid Odyssey Begins
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft set out on a decade...