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MANOA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii - Manoa spend their days searching the final frontier for any signs of movement. In their quest to find wayward asteroids that may be tumbling towards earth, they made a rare discovery this month that you'll likely be able to see...

WASHINGTON – Scientists now have close-up pictures of a hyperactive comet that seems to be spewing water. Hartley 2 isn't the only such comet, but it's the first to be visited by a spacecraft during a flyby, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. University of Maryland...

After more than three years of preparation, waiting and chasing, a NASA probe is now just days away from its Valentine's Day date with a comet. The Stardust-NExT spacecraft will fly to within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of comet Tempel 1 at about 11:40 p.m. EST on the night of Feb. 14 (0440 GMT...

NASA is getting ready for a close encounter of the real kind with another comet next week. The Deep Impact spacecraft, already in flight, will come within 435 miles of comet Hartley 2 on November 4 in a history-making fly-by. NASA previewed the exploratory expedition Tuesday. The space agency...