Comets
Last Summer’s Fireball in Pieces on the Ground?
The Bejar bolide photographed from Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain. The incoming fireball is the streak to the right of the…
Comet C/2007 N3 Lulin – A Twist In The Tail
[/caption] When Chi-Sheng Lin of Taiwan's Institute of Astronomy captured three images on July 11, 2007 with something strange in…
Comet Lulin is On the Way!
[/caption] A new comet is swinging around the sun, and soon it will be more visible to stargazers, perhaps even…
Stardust and Aerogel Return Home Again
[/caption] Remember the Stardust mission that returned samples of comet dust back to Earth in 2006? The spacecraft dropped off…
2012: No Comet
[/caption]According to 2012 doomsday proponents, something big is out to get us. By "something big" I mean some uncontrollable cosmic…
Swift Detects X-Ray Emissions from Comets
[/caption]Things appeared to get a little strange in the field of X-ray astronomy when the NASA/ESA ROSAT observatory started seeing…
A New Type of Comet? And Where Did It Come From?
[/caption] All comets are about the same, right? Not necessarily. Astronomer David Schleicher has been studying 150 comets, measuring the…
New Telescope on the Lookout for Near Earth Asteroids, Comets
[/caption] A prototype telescope with an enhanced ability to find moving objects will soon be operational, and its mission will…
An Inside Look at Comet Holmes
The astronomy world buzzed in the Fall of 2007 when Comet Holmes – a normally humdrum, run-of-the-mill comet -- unexpectedly…
Kuiper Belt Object Travelling the Wrong-Way in a One-Way Solar System
[/caption] A strange Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) has been discovered orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction. The object, designated…