(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 ...

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

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about ...

On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were launched together for this mission: one was a flyby vehicle about ...

When NASA set out to slam a spacecraft into a comet, the goal was not spectacle but data: a controlled impact that could peel back the outer layers of a primordial body and reveal what the early solar ...