We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to ...

For the first time, scientists have processed images from NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft and clearly seen the solid body, or nucleus, of the comet through the vast cloud of dust and gas that surrounds ...

[embed[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7x1H1b9MA[/embed] Video of Comet C/2012 S1 ISON compiled from images taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft on Jan. 17-18 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse of the frozen primordial ...

People worldwide may celebrate July 4, 2005, as the day their names reach a comet. NASA is launching a campaign to send hundreds of thousands of names to comet Tempel 1. The names will be carried on ...

Blasting a hole in a comet with an earth-launched spacecraft sounds like the stuff of science fiction. Or fare for a Hollywood blockbuster. But this example of American space ingenuity is real and ...

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft successfully crashed into Comet Tempel 1 early Monday. Scientists arranged the collision in an effort to learn more about the physical makeup of comets. A wealth of data ...

On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were launched together for this mission: one was a flyby vehicle about ...

A space research mission offers some real fireworks for the Fourth of July. The space probe Deep Impact will launch a projectile Monday at Temple 1, a comet NASA has watched for years, and it may be ...

Though the Deep Impact mission's impactor struck the Tempel 1 Comet back in July, research and discoveries continue for the mission's team, which includes Professor of Geological Sciences Peter ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name — Deep Impact — blasted off Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a glimpse at the frozen primordial ...

A Sept. 7 article about the results of NASA's Deep Impact probe misstated the age of the solar system. It is 4.5 billion years old, not 4.5 million. (Published 9/10/2005) When NASA's Deep Impact ...