Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

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Comet's Surface Surprises NASA June 17, 2004 / 2:39 PM EDT / AP When scientists sent a spacecraft to get a close look at a comet, they thought they knew what they'd see.

Without actually going to a comet's surface and testing out some stuff, I am going to have to make some assumptions. Comet 67P is spherical and locally flat.

Footage of two comets plunging into the surface of the sun was taken by a NASA probe on October 22.. Captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which was launched by ...

Comets are our cosmic time capsules and can reveal a lot about the early solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Rosetta's mission, which ended with a controlled impact on the comet's surface on September 30, 2016, provided a treasure trove of data.

Comets’ orbits can be very long, meaning they may spend most of their time in far-off reaches of the solar system. An object will orbit faster the closer it is to the Sun, as angular momentum is ...