Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...

NASA and other space agencies routinely use ... we're not talking about a zero gravity chamber — we're talking about the Vomit Comet. If you're so inclined, you can book a trip on the reduced ...

Scientists say cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets as potential ...

“A wave of comet and asteroid collisions with the solar system’s inner planets 4 billion years ago would have made this ...

Watch: The BBC's Rebecca Morelle struggles during her first experience of weightlessness There's a reason parabolic flights are nicknamed "vomit comets" - it's like riding on a mid-air rollercoaster.

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

The video below shows McAuliffe practicing the lesson aboard NASA's zero-gravity Vomit Comet: 2. Does magnetism still work in microgravity? Magnets are already pretty cool, but they're even in ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as ...

In the day, it was famous for simulating weightlessness for soon-to-be NASA astronauts ... hence the plane’s infamous nickname, the “Vomit Comet.” (Original Caption) 11/9/1970: Apollo ...