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Approaching Comet May Outshine The Moon -- Reuters   * Comet ISON discovered in September * Could be brightest comet in decades Dec 2...

Photo: Hale-Bopp sailed overhead, leaving two trails: An ionic trail of magnetically-charged particles facing directly away from the sun ...

Photo: The combination of water, energy and amino acids – which bind together to form proteins – could have caused the first chemical react...

Image of 2007 Orionids, showing Orion constellation in the backdrop. (Credit: S. Quirk) Jupiter Helps Halley’s Comet Give Us More Spectacula...

Comet May Have Collided With Earth 13,000 Years Ago -- Live Science New evidence supports the idea that a huge space rock collided with our ...

This is an image of comet Hartley 2 taken on the closest flyby with the smaller of spacecrafts two telescopes (with cameras) on the Universi...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on Sept. 25, are helping in the planning for a Nov. 4 flyby of the comet ...

From Discovery News: Piecing together historic record and correlating it with the location of celestial objects nearly 2,500 years ago is an...

The comet was considered a bad omen in 1066 (Image: Mary Evans/Alamy) From New Scientist: A CELESTIAL event in the 5th century BC could be t...

Comet McNaught viewed over the Pacific in 2007. (Credit: Sebastian Deiries/ESO) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2010) — British s...

A sudden plunge of global temperatures 12,900 years ago may have been caused by a comet impact, a British researcher argues. Credit: U.S. Ge...

This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture a comet-like object called P/2010 A2, which was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-E...

From The Daily Mail: A comet has been captured by Nasa being 'eaten' as it flies too close to the sun. The space agency's solar-...

Photo: CLOUDY ORIGINS: A comet called 2001 RX14 likely originated from a hypothesized region called the Oort cloud, far outside the planeta...

Comet Hale-Bopp. The watery environment of early comets, together with the vast quantity of organics already discovered in comets, would hav...

Tunguska Blast From Science News: Night-shining clouds created after space shuttle launches may offer clues into the cause of the Tunguska e...

A ccording to scientists Jupiter and Saturn have protected life on Earth for hundreds of millions of years by catching and batting away dang...

The nanodiamonds were found on the island of Santa Rosa, which was linked to three of the Northern Channel Islands off the southern Californ...

(Photograph by Pete Turner/Getty Images) From Popular Mechanics: On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky exploded over a remote region of c...

The comet contains the gases cyanogen and diatomic carbon, which give it its green colour. ( Paolo Candy/Cimini Astronomical Observatory ) ...