Tagged: Comet

The icy surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, home to the famous Philae lander, may also host alien life, according to astrobiologists. Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, director of the U.K.’s Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, and Max Wallis of the University of Cardiff say that the comet could be...

What happens when the sun eats a comet? It gets terrible solar gas. No one can blame us for thinking the question sounds like a joke. After all, the sun doesn’t actually “eat” a comet, but it can pretty much consume it and, on occasion,...

Lurking in our solar system’s remote hinterlands are two collections of icy bodies, the frozen remnants of our solar system’s formative years. One, the Kuiper Belt, rings the sun just beyond Neptune’s orbit. The other, the Oort cloud, surrounds local space somewhere between 5,000 and...

The European Space Agency’s unprecedented Rosetta mission is over, so here and in the above video, we wanted to highlight all it uncovered about comet 67P before ESA scientists intentionally collided the spacecraft with its icy subject this morning. Launched in 2004, the ESA’s Rosetta...

An artist’s impression of the comet visitor ‘Oumuamua, which was first discovered in our solar system in October 2017. ESO/M. KORNMESSER Like a speeding bullet fired from an unknown and distant star system, the interstellar comet ‘Oumuamua dashed through our solar system and was only...

When ‘Oumuamua was spotted tumbling away from our solar system, astronomers were captivated — it was the first interstellar comet to be discovered after a chance encounter with our sun’s gravity. Now, two years after this historic discovery, it’s happened again; the galaxy has sent...

An interesting celestial object known as Comet 45P zipped past Earth early in 2017 while it was observed from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawai’i. The results of these observations are important for study of ices in Jupiter-family comets and reveal that quirky 45P...

The bombardment of Mars some 4 billion years ago by comets and asteroids likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the planet more conducive to life, at least for a time, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder. If...

If Comet Elenin is a Brown Dwarf (Nibiru), this is how everything will occur in September. Article entirely by Mihael Simić: A DWARF STAR is currently in a position between JUPITER and SUN and is approaching EARTH from at 100,000 miles per hour covering 2.4...

Elenin Comet Is A Smokescreen Cover For A Brown Dwarf With Three Moons. But is this brown dwarf the already famous Planet X / Nibiru? Let’s see… (An article by Terral, usmessageboard.com) The time has come to gain a better understanding of what is really...