We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to pick lottery winners for survival bunkers while the rest of us brace for the end.

Scientists on the trail of comets in deep space "reluctantly" announced Friday an end to NASA's Deep Impact mission after nearly a decade that included celestial fly-bys and hundreds of thousands of ...

NASA's "Deep Impact" mission will not only give scientists a glimpse into the core of a comet, but should also provide clues about conditions that existed when the Solar System was formed. Now ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has imaged an interstellar comet. This icy body was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on July 1, 2025, ...

The year 2023 brought us the summer of Barbenheimer, where two entirely different movies went head-to-head at the box office. But 25 years earlier, the summer of 1998 was marked by a very different ...