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Comet
A comet is an icy planetary body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This outgassing produces what's called a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These visual phenomena are the result of solar radiation and the solar wind that acts upon the nucleus of the comet.
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JUL 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Scientists' interest in comets continues to grow as a recent discovery on a comet known as 67P has scientists both baffl ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
After being dormant for a long seven-month stretch of time, the European Space Agency's (ESA) comet lander Philae was he ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
Space has been called the final frontier and nations all over the world have gone on missions to faraway galaxies, lande ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Research by a team of astronomers from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England suggests that asteroids and comets ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's Messenger spacecraft will be ending its mission with a crash landing on April 30, 2015, but that's exactly as it ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 15, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 09, 2015Space & Astronomy
Looking for life
Hunting for evidence of alien life is a much trickier proposition than identifyi ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 05, 2015Space & Astronomy
As the European Rosetta spacecraft continues to explore Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it gradually gets closer to t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 31, 2015Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have observed an eruption from a baby star in the Orion Constellation that appears to be a stellar growth sp ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
Dawn, a NASA spacecraft, has arrived at Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest member of the of our solar system's astero ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAR 18, 2015Earth & The Environment
An article by Andrew Griffin, appearing in the 17 March issue of The Independent, tells the story:
Life ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
It's strange to think that a man who went to the moon and wants to colonize Mars could be delayed by some snow.
Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 25, 2015Videos
The comet 67P has provided an avalanche of astonishing discoveries that may puzzle scientists for years to come. And one ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 14, 2014Chemistry & Physics
A couple of theoretical physicists have come up with an interesting and somewhat controversial variant of the meteorite- ...JUL 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Scientists' interest in comets continues to grow as a recent discovery on a comet known as 67P has scientists both baffl ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
After being dormant for a long seven-month stretch of time, the European Space Agency's (ESA) comet lander Philae was he ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 14, 2015Space & Astronomy
For the first time in seven long months, the Philae lander from the European Space Agency (ESA) has woken up and sent a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
Space has been called the final frontier and nations all over the world have gone on missions to faraway galaxies, lande ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Research by a team of astronomers from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England suggests that asteroids and comets ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 27, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA's Messenger spacecraft will be ending its mission with a crash landing on April 30, 2015, but that's exactly as it ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 15, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 09, 2015Space & Astronomy
Looking for life
Hunting for evidence of alien life is a much trickier proposition than identifyi ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 05, 2015Space & Astronomy
As the European Rosetta spacecraft continues to explore Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it gradually gets closer to t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 31, 2015Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have observed an eruption from a baby star in the Orion Constellation that appears to be a stellar growth sp ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
Dawn, a NASA spacecraft, has arrived at Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest member of the of our solar system's astero ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopMAR 18, 2015Earth & The Environment
An article by Andrew Griffin, appearing in the 17 March issue of The Independent, tells the story:
Life ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
It's strange to think that a man who went to the moon and wants to colonize Mars could be delayed by some snow.
Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 25, 2015Videos
The comet 67P has provided an avalanche of astonishing discoveries that may puzzle scientists for years to come. And one ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 14, 2014Chemistry & Physics
A couple of theoretical physicists have come up with an interesting and somewhat controversial variant of the meteorite- ...
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