For the first time, scientists have processed images from NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft and clearly seen the solid body, or nucleus, of the comet through the vast cloud of dust and gas that surrounds ...

“The comet is mostly empty, mostly porous,” Michael A’Hearn, a comet specialist at the University of Maryland, said Tuesday. “Probably all the way in, there is no bulk ice. The ice is all in the form ...

We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to pick lottery winners for survival bunkers while the rest of us brace for the end.

People worldwide may celebrate July 4, 2005, as the day their names reach a comet. NASA is launching a campaign to send hundreds of thousands of names to comet Tempel 1. The names will be carried on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel.Two spacecraft ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse of the frozen primordial ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name — Deep Impact — blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse at the frozen primordial ...

After 172 days and 431 million kilometers (268 million miles) of deep space stalking, Deep Impact successfully reached out and touched comet Tempel 1. The collision between the coffee table-sized ...

correctionA Sept. 7 article about the results of NASA's Deep Impact probe misstated the age of the solar system. It is 4.5 billion years old, not 4.5 million. (Published 9/10/2005) When NASA's Deep ...

On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were launched together for this mission: one was a flyby vehicle about ...