Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the comet in the footage. Credit: NASA/STEREO/Karl Battams | edited by Space.com's ...

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 ...

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Tempel 1’s orbit takes it as close in to the Sun as the orbit of Mars and almost as far away as the orbit of Jupiter. The spacecraft is expected to fly past the 3.7 mile-wide comet at a distance ...

The first image of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft is a composite made from observations on Jan. 18 and 19, 2011. On Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14 in U.S. time zones), Stardust ...

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 ...

The Tempel 1 flyby, the Wild 2 flyby and the recent imaging of Comet Hartley confirm that fragmenting. Dust and ice clods are commonly released into space by comets.” ...

Comet Tempel 1, as seen from the spacecraft Stardust (NASA picture of the day, February 16, 2011) Comets are balls of ice and dirt with elongated orbits, spending most of their time in near ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL - NASA released a series of images Tuesday showing the comet Tempel 1 as viewed by the Stardust spacecraft. Among the findings are images of an earlier impact on the comet by a ...

At the Stardust press conference yesterday, they displayed an image that purported to show the crater where the Deep Impact impactor slammed into the Tempel 1 comet nucleus back in 2005.When I ...

At the Stardust press conference yesterday, they displayed an image that purported to show the crater where the Deep Impact impactor slammed into the Tempel 1 comet nucleus back in 2005.When I wrote ...