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A Second Alignment Plane Of Our Solar System Has Been Discovered

Mars Imaged by Hubble

A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane.

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has An Aurora

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Data from NASA instruments aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta mission have helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora.

Rainbow Comet With A Heart Of Sponge

A permeable heart with a hardened facade -the resting place of Rosetta's lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the 'rubber duck' shaped-body looping around the Sun.

Close Up View Of The Nucleus Of Comet NEOWISE

Whether it's a surprise asteroid, colorful aurora or a heart-stopping eclipse, the landscape of the night sky is constantly changing.

Astrophysicists Suggest That Carbon Found In Comet ATLAS Will Help To Reveal The Age Of Other Comets

Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia), South Korea, and the USA appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggesting carbon indicates time comets have spent in the Solar System -- the less carbon, the longer they have been in the proximity of the Sun.

Comet Neowise Seen From Orbit

The tiny shooting star in the lower center of this image is Comet Neowise pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited above the Mediterranean Sea in between Tunisia and Italy.

NRL Telescope Discovers SOHO 's 4,000th Comet

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA on June 15.

Hubble Watches Comet ATLAS Disintegrate

These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and 23, 2020, provide the sharpest views yet of the breakup of the fragile comet.

Interstellar Comet Borisov Likely Comes from a Red Dwarf Star

Comet 2I/Borisov seemingly came out of nowhere late last summer, when comet hunter Gennadiy Borisov in Crimea discovered the vagabond coursing toward our star.

Outbound Comets Are Likely of Alien Origin

Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have analyzed the paths of two objects heading out of the solar system forever and determined that they also most likely originated from outside of the solar system.

Hubble Watches Interstellar Comet Borisov Speed Past the Sun

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has once again captured comet 2I/Borisov streaking through our solar system on its way back into interstellar space.

TESS Catches A Comet Outburst In Unprecedented Detail

This is the most complete and detailed observation to date of the formation and dissipation of a naturally-occurring comet outburst. The team members reported their results in the November 22 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

New Close-up Image Of The Interstellar Comet 2l/Borisov

2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and will reach its closest approach -- about 190 million miles -- in early December.

How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of 'Comet Crumbs'

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging black holes.