<p></p> <p>The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the “habitable zone” around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2014-45-a-web_print.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>This composite Hubble Space Telescope image (click image for larger view) captures the positions of Comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of
<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 style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Comets and other icy celestial bodies have some basic building blocks for life, but it takes violent impacts to take them to the next level, according to researchers who
<p>Comet Halley, the originator of the Orionids meteor shower that lit up our skies last month – as they do every October – is seen here up close by ESA’s