Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS ...
The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously ...
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), conducted the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise this week ...
We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to ...
Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, ...
Bensch, Frank, Melnick, Gary J., Neufeld, David A., Harwit, Martin, Snell, Ronald L., Patten, Brian M., and Tolls, Volker. 2007. "Submillimeter Wave Astronomy ...