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Comets deposited building blocks of life on Earth

Amino acids make up proteins, which are the workhorses of all forms of life, ranging from microbes t...

Tiny comet grain reveals Jupiter`s formation date

NASA`s Stardust spacecraft has indicated that Jupiter formed more than three million years after the...

Camera catches comet plunging into the sun

`Sun grazing` comet, which was caught by SOHO’s LASCO C2 camera as it dived toward the sun on July 5...

Comet Lovejoy blazes trail across Chilean sky

Comet Lovejoy has been captured in stunning time-lapse video taken from the Paranal Observatory in C...

Comet defies death, brushes up to sun and lives

A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably c...

NASA develops space harpoon for sample collection

NASA has developed a space harpoon to take samples from comets with surgical precision without landi...

Orionid meteor shower to reach peak tomorrow

The orionid meteor shower of debris, left behind by Halley`s Comet, will reach its peak on October 2...

Comet storm detected in nearby solar system

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a band of dust around a nearby bright star in the norther...

First UFO photograph could be a massive comet

Scientists believe it could be a massive comet that came close to hitting the earth with the same fo...

Debris of `doomsday comet` to pass by Earth today

Comet Elenin, popularly known as the "doomsday comet", is likely to make its closest approach to Ear...

4.5 bn year-old meteorite hits Comettes` home

A French family discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old meteor had fallen all the way down from an asteroi...

Water on Earth originated from comets?

Astronomers have for the first time found water on a comet containing the chemical signature that is...

Comet surprise: Did the sea come from the sky?

Much of Earth`s oceans may have been created by comets, which whacked into the infant planet billion...

Russian astronomer discovers new comet

Russian amateur astronomer Artyom Novichonok, a student of Petrozavodsk university, has discovered a...

Accountant finds sixth comet in just nine months

Accountant Shishir Deshmukh has just discovered his sixth comet in just nine months, the first by an...

Scientists discover ‘molecules essential for life’ in asteroids, comets

A team of scientists has discovered molecules essential for life in material from certain kinds of a...

A new breed of comet at the heart of Hartley-2?

NASA researchers have claimed that they have discovered possibly a new breed of comet at the heart o...

Researchers gain new insights into Comet Hartley 2

A researcher has observed that the nucleus of Comet Hartley 2 is tumbling at a changing rotational r...

Comets gases may have led to Titan’s atmosphere

Comets blasting gases out of its icy crust could have created the unique atmosphere of Titan.

Liquid water `discovered on frozen comet`

Scientists claim to have for 1st time found concrete evidence for presence of liquid water in a come...

Past comet collisions ‘left ripples in Jupiter and Saturn rings’

Jupiter and Saturn rings contain ripples, according to data from NASA`s Cassini.

NASA`s comet-hunting Stardust shuts down

Stardust had finished its main mission in 2006, sending particles from a comet to Earth.

NASA spacecraft unravels comet mystery

A NASA spacecraft`s flyby with a comet showed erosion on the Tempel 1`s surface.

NASA spacecraft, comet set for Valentine’s Day rendezvous

NASA’s Stardust spacecraft would be redirected to pass within 200 Kms of comet Tempel 1 on the V-Day...

NASA spacecraft, comet fated for V-Day

NASA`s spacecraft would be redirected to pass within 200 kms of comet Tempel 1 on Valentine`s Day.

NASA’S NEOWISE finds previously unknown comets, asteroids

The mission, called NEOWISE, also identified 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs).

Jupiter was hit by asteroid in 2009, not a comet

A new study has confirmed that in 2009, it was an asteroid that hit Jupiter, not a comet.

NASA craft prepares for Valentine`s Day date with comet

NASA`s spacecraft Stardust-NexT is preparing for a date on Valentine`s Day with comet Tempel 1.

Lunar water may have come from comets: Scientists

Water on Moon came in large part from comets which bombarded the lunar surface in its infancy.

SOHO reaches milestone after spotting 2000th comet

An ESA/NASA spacecraft has reached a milestone- the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has sp...

Alien comets were stolen by Sun 4.5bn yrs ago

Computer simulations have shown that the early Sun could have stolen comets from neighboring newborn...

NASA EPOXI flyby offers new insights into comet features

Initial images from NASA`s EPOXI mission spacecraft provide new info about comet`s volume.

NASA spacecraft passes closer to take pics of comet

NASA spacecraft has passed within 700km of a comet taking its pictures in unprecedented detail.

Pale green Hartley comet to pass close to Earth

A pale green comet will make a close pass by the Earth giving sky-watchers a good view of the cosmi...

Comet-impact may not have killed mammoths: Experts

A new theory suggests that a space impact may not have led to the extinction of mammoths from earth.

Giant comet ‘smacked Neptune 200 years ago’

Neptune was struck by a giant comet about two centuries ago, says a research.

Comet McNaught to brighten up night sky

An opportunity for star gazers as a comet with distinct tail will be seen in night sky till month en...

Many comets evolved in other solar systems

Many well-known comets such as Halley and Hale-Bopp originally formed in other solar systems, accord...

Comet McNaught closest to Earth next week

If you look towards the northeastern sky before sunrise June 15, the recently discovered comet McNau...

Comet McNaught swings through inner solar system: NASA

A comet is swinging through the inner solar system and is brightening rapidly even as it approaches...

Scientists conduct ``post-mortem of comet`` to find origins of solar system

Leicester University researchers are putting extraterrestrial material from the Comet Wild 2 under t...

Neptune to have water in future!

An icy comet might have smashed into Neptune two centuries ago—that’s what scientists have gauged fr...

A computer model to protect space missions from comets

The scientists have developed a computer model that can locate the `active regions` on a comet.

Images of comet crashing into Sun captured

Solar physicists have for the first time captured images of the collision of a comet with the Sun.

Astronomers measure ‘biggest’ comet

Astronomers have measured Comet McNaught, which is believed to be the biggest comet to date. McNaugh...

Large comet explosion ‘caused earth`s cooling 13,000 years ago’

Thousands of Tunguska-sized cometary fragments struck the earth for over an hour 13,000 years ago, l...

Scientists make first measurement of age of cometary material

New research on comet Wild 2 indicates that inner solar system material was transported to the comet...

Comet-like object might be asteroid collision debris

Planetary scientists have suggested that a curious, comet-like object recently found in pictures fro...

Lunar water probably came from comets

A discovery that may solve the mystery behind the source of moon`s water an evidence from NASA`s L...

Comets may have delivered water on Moon

Evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission has suggested that water found in the lunar impact recently was ...

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