Comet Tempel News Today

Kinetic impactor or nuclear blast? Here are some ways to defend our planet from a dangerous asteroid.

The discovery of water vapor around the comet suggests that water can be preserved as ice in warmer parts of the solar system and could have been delivered to Earth from a comet.

Today, comets are a sight to behold, but for most of history they were seen as harbingers of doom.

Sometimes, spacecraft must be destroyed anyway. And sometimes, it takes destroying a spacecraft to get the maximum science out of a mission.

Spaceflight Insider Laurel Kornfeld February 6th, 2021 This image depicts the location of Clavius Crater, a rendering of water trapped in lunar soil, and the SOFIA Observatory. Image Credit: NASA Two Earth-based studies confirm water molecules are present on the Moon, but the amounts vary depending on location and time of day, Casey Honniball of NASA’s online seminar titled “A Tale of Lunar Water,” sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute ( LPI) in Houston, Texas. Infrared Telesc...