We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to ...

On Sunday, NASA’s historic Deep Impact spacecraft will fly past Earth for the fifth and last time on its current University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission. At time of closest approach to Earth, the ...

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 ...

ESA’s Mars orbiters captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars, revealing its bright, hazy ...

[embed[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7x1H1b9MA[/embed] Video of Comet C/2012 S1 ISON compiled from images taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft on Jan. 17-18 ...

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 ...

Blasting a hole in a comet with an earth-launched spacecraft sounds like the stuff of science fiction. Or fare for a Hollywood blockbuster. But this example of American space ingenuity is real and ...

The European Space Agency's two Mars orbiters take their shot at getting pictures of the exotic interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

The European Space Agency has commented about a recent viewing of the comet and outlined its future path in the coming days ...