On05, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were ...

Commissioned in November of 1999 as the eighth mission in NASA's low-cost, high-frequency Discovery program of planetary ...

Completing nearly a decade of comet exploration, NASA's Deep Impact mission was the most-traveled deep-space comet hunter of its time. The spacecraft visited two comets and captured images of two more ...

This is a picture of comet Tempel 1 taken by the Deep Impact probe’s impactor targeting sensor. The probe collided with the comet at at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time, July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4) ...

When it comes to slamming space probes into comets, astronomers — like Boy Scouts — prefer to be prepared. As part of that preparation, a team of researchers has been using a giant gun to hurl ...

At 1:52 a.m. EDT on July 4, NASA’s Deep Impact mission will provide scientists with the first-ever opportunity to view the pristine material beneath the surface of a comet. At 1:52 a.m. EDT on July 3, ...

At the Stardust press conference yesterday, they displayed an image that purported to show the crater where the Deep Impact impactor slammed into the Tempel 1 comet nucleus back in 2005. When I wrote ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision early on 4 July between the Deep Impact impactor spacecraft and Comet 9P/Tempel 1. This sequence of images shows the ...

This image of Comet Tempel 1 was taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft on July 4, 2005, 67 seconds after a probe crashed into the comet. This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 about 50 minutes ...

The Deep Impact impactor spacecraft scored a direct hit on Tempel 1 on July 4, (see page 28). The flyby craft took this picture 67 sec. after the strike with its high-resolution camera. The ejected ...