On05, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were ...

Scientists on the trail of comets in deep space "reluctantly" announced Friday an end to NASA's Deep Impact mission after nearly a decade that included celestial fly-bys and hundreds of thousands of ...

Commissioned in November of 1999 as the eighth mission in NASA's low-cost, high-frequency Discovery program of planetary ...

(Phys.org) —NASA today announced the end of operations for the Deep Impact spacecraft, history's most traveled deep-space comet hunter, after trying unsuccessfully for more than a month to regain ...

Deep Impact will have traveled 268 million miles from the time it is launched aboard an unmanned rocket until it intersects with Comet Tempel 1 just beyond the orbit of Mars, at a point more than 80 ...

NASA’s Deep Impact mission deliberately slammed an object into a comet with the force of five tons of TNT. Scientists were ...

The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...

Bensch, Frank, Melnick, Gary J., Neufeld, David A., Harwit, Martin, Snell, Ronald L., Patten, Brian M., and Tolls, Volker. 2007. "Submillimeter Wave Astronomy ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of every comet lies a remnant of the dawn of the solar system. Or is that remnants? Astronomers don't know, but the answer would give them a clearer picture of exactly ...