NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005. This image ...

On February 14th this year, NASA's Stardust probe made its second visit to the comet Tempel 1 at 8.40pm PST, shaving the comet at a distance of 111 miles (178 km) and traveling at a relative speed ...

Tempel 1, a comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867, completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. This year, it has a Valentine's date with NASA's Stardust robotic space probe -- and new ...

Here’s how it works. On Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft will make a close flyby of comet Tempel 1, zipping to within just 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the icy wanderer.

The Stardust spacecraft, which has already taken images of asteroid Annefrank and captured interstellar dust from comet Wild 2, on Monday night will swing by comet Tempel 1. There, it will take ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. Images taken during the Stardust-NExT mission's flyby of comet Tempel 1 Monday night are trickling in to a happy but bleary-eyed science team eager to ...

Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe streaked past comet Tempel 1 late Monday, capturing 72 Valentine's Day closeups to find ...

That’s because the Stardust spacecraft, which had already paid a call on Comet Wild 2 in 2006, would be making a second visit to Comet Tempel-1 — a 3.7- mile-diameter (6 km) ball of rock and ...

The surface displays extensive layering, pits, and craters – clues he and his colleagues will sort through to uncover the geological history of Tempel 1 and the forces beyond solar heating that ...

NASA's Stardust-Next spacecraft flew past Comet Tempel 1 at 8:38 Pacific time Monday night, snapping photos as it sped by. In 2005, the Deep Impact probe blew a crater into Tempel 1 with an 800 ...

Images of comet Tempel 1 taken by the Stardust spacecraft during its Monday night close encounter suggest that the comet’s surface is much more fragile than astronomers had anticipated ...

Ten days after part of the Deep Impact spacecraft plunged onto Comet Tempel 1 with the aim to create a crater and expose pristine material from beneath the surface, astronomers are back in the ESO ...