When NASA set out to slam a spacecraft into a comet, the goal was not spectacle but data: a controlled impact that could peel back the outer layers of a primordial body and reveal what the early solar ...

Examples of Fe-rich and silica-rich impact microspherules (a and b) and metallic dust particles (MDPs; c and d) interpreted as cometary dust from Baffin Bay cores. Yellow arrows show particles of FeSi ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system. Discovered over the summer, the comet ...