<p></p> <p>The adventure continues: ESA today confirmed that its Rosetta mission will be extended until the end of September 2016, at which point the spacecraft will most likely be landed on
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>What are the odds? On Nov. 18th and 19th not one but two comets will fly by the planet Mercury.</p> <p>“This is a unique coincidence,” says Ron Vervack an astronomer
<p class="small" style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>A useful point of comparison is Comet Lovejoy, which put on a grand show after it brushed the sun in 2011. People in the southern
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>ESA’s space missions are getting ready to observe an icy visitor to the inner Solar System: Comet ISON, which might also be visible in the night sky later this
<p>In 1948, astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky" target="_blank">Fritz Zwicky</a>, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that “fusion jets” could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun and solar
<p>A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA’s Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an