• Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 25th, 2010
It's Best to Approach Comets from the South

It's Best to Approach Comets from the South

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 22nd, 2010
First Deep Impact Images Reach Earth

First Deep Impact Images Reach Earth

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 14th, 2010
First Halley Sighting Is 200 Years Older

First Halley Sighting Is 200 Years Older

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • July 24th, 2010
Neptune May Have Been Impacted by a Comet

Neptune May Have Been Impacted by a Comet

More than two centuries ago

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • June 8th, 2010
ESO Inaugurates New Telescope at La Silla

ESO Inaugurates New Telescope at La Silla

The machine is dedicated to exoplanetary studies

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 28th, 2010
Explaining Neptune's Atmospheric Composition

Explaining Neptune's Atmospheric Composition

The planet has high amounts of carbon monoxide

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 19th, 2010
Asteroid Impacts More Likely After Jupiter Impact

Asteroid Impacts More Likely After Jupiter Impact

The event took place last year

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 7th, 2010
Two Small Meteorites Hold Clues to the Solar System's History

Two Small Meteorites Hold Clues to the Solar System's History

They were recovered from Antarctic ices

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 4th, 2010
Computer Model Can Predict Eruptions on Comets

Computer Model Can Predict Eruptions on Comets

When matter is ejected from the objects' nuclei

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 29th, 2010
Asteroid Reveals Traces of Water-Ice

Asteroid Reveals Traces of Water-Ice

This is the first time such a discovery is made

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 13th, 2010
Biggest Comet on Record Established

Biggest Comet on Record Established

It is the Great Comet of 2007

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 7th, 2010
Earth May Have Passed Through a Comet's Tail

Earth May Have Passed Through a Comet's Tail

Maybe even repeatedly, scientists say

Ice Studies Reveal Traces of Unknown Cometary Impact

Ice Studies Reveal Traces of Unknown Cometary Impact

At the end of the last ice age

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 13th, 2010
Astronomers Find Comet Heading for Its Death

Astronomers Find Comet Heading for Its Death

It will pass very close to the Sun

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 12th, 2010
Our Solar System Will Be Struck by an Orange Dwarf

Our Solar System Will Be Struck by an Orange Dwarf

But we still have a lot of time ahead

 
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