Comet Tempel 1 has been the target of two NASA missions. Here, an artist envisions what the approach of NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft may look like when it arrives at Comet Tempel 1 on Valentine ...

NASA has released the first photos of the comet Tempel 1 taken by its Stardust probe late yesterday (Feb. 14), showing the icy wanderer in the distance as the spacecraft drew nearer for a closer look.

Tempel 1, a comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867, completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. This year, it has a Valentine's date with NASA's Stardust robotic space probe -- and new ...

Photos from the Stardust-NExT rendezvous with comet Tempel 1 are streaming in. Some show a crater that was created by a different NASA mission but never sucessfully photographed.

Images of comet Tempel 1 taken by the Stardust spacecraft during its Monday night close encounter suggest that the comet’s surface is much more fragile than astronomers had anticipated, with ...

On February 14th this year, NASA's Stardust probe made its second visit to the comet Tempel 1 at 8.40pm PST, shaving the comet at a distance of 111 miles (178 km) and traveling at a relative speed ...

It’s not exactly young love, but some might find it romantic. On Valentine’s Day, an aging Lothario that has been flitting from beauty to beauty through the solar system will make his final ...

On Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft will make a close flyby of comet Tempel 1, zipping to within just 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the icy wanderer.

Ten days after part of the Deep Impact spacecraft plunged onto Comet Tempel 1, astronomers are back from more than a week of observing at the ESO La Silla Paranal Observatory, having collected a ...

This story was updated at 12:44 p.m. EST. NASA has released the first photos of the comet Tempel 1 taken by its Stardust probe late yesterday (Feb. 14), showing the icy wanderer in the distance as ...

Astronomers Having Used ESO Telescopes Start Analysing Unique Dataset on the Comet Following the Deep Impact MissionTen days after part of the Deep Impact spacecraft plunged onto Comet Tempel 1 ...