May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
...232C) or so. When NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft intentionally smashed into comet Tempel 1 on 4 July 2005, it expelled a cloud of material... to identify the ingredients that eventually produced planets, comets and other bodies in our solar system. What ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta was the first spacecraft to orbit ...probe made the first successful landing on the surface a comet and began sending back images and data. It is ...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
...cooperation in the civil exploration of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids. They were announced on 13 October 2020 ... nations arriving at the Moon, near-Earth asteroids and comets for space exploration and commercial exploitation. The Accords define...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... out that an encounter with a dark cloud perturbs the orbit of asteroids and comets through its gravitational potential, causing showers of asteroids and/or comets. Could this be the cause of the Chicxulub impact? More on this research can...
17 May 2019
First science results released on Ultima Thule
... called Cthulhu. It has been proposed that Pluto is in fact one giant comet, made up of roughly a billion smaller objects that are similar in composition to 67P/C-G, the comet surveyed by Rosetta. If Ultima Thule turns out to be made of the same...
22 May 2019
Water came to Earth when the Moon formed says study
...that a vast stream of water-laden comets crashing on our planet gave Earth its ... neighbours? Many planetary scientists are in agreement that an extensive bombardment of comets showered the inner Solar System earlier in its history to provide the water...
