Articles about Comets

That’s no starship … or asteroid: Hubble hints that interstellar object is a comet

News brief: Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories indicate that the cigar-shaped interstellar object known as… Read More

Planetary scientists suggest that Pluto was put together from a billion comets

Did Pluto form like its closer-in brethren in the solar system, or is it the result of an agglomeration of… Read More

Animated GIF shows ‘snow’ on Rosetta’s comet – and sends chills around the world

It’s been 19 months since the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended, but the probe’s pictures stirred… Read More

NASA picks a drone for Titan and a return to a comet as prospects for future probes

A rotorcraft that could flit around the Saturnian moon Titan and a probe that could bring a sample back from… Read More

‘Farewell, Rosetta’: Europe’s mission to a comet ends with a bittersweet bang

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe today descended to a mission-ending impact on the comet that it followed for more than two… Read More

Philae found at last! Rosetta probe spots lost lander stuck in a comet’s crack

After almost two years’ of searching, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has shown scientists what happened to the Philae… Read More

Pow! Rosetta probe spots comet eruption

The scientists behind the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to a comet today released an amazing series of pictures showing… Read More