NASA’s Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft is hurtling toward Comet Hartley 2 for a breathtaking 435-mile flyby on Nov. 4th. Mission scientists say all systems are go

Researches confirm presence of amino acid returned from dust collected from Comet Wild 2 with the Stardust spacecraft. More

The comet makes its closest approach to Earth (0.41 AU) on Feb. 24, 2009 More

Comet Holmes, a dim comet visible only in telescopes, unexpectedly brightened in the past couple of weeks and is now visible to the naked eye.More

Comet McNaught, discovered last year, is continuing to brighten and is now visible to viewers in the southen hemisphere. 

A cometary “string-of-pearls” flew past Earth in May 2006 giving astronomers a fantastic view of a dying comet. NASA news

Scientists find presence of minerals that formed in high temperatures in the comet dust returned by NASA’s Stardust mission. The presence of Olivine suggests that

After seven years in space, NASA’s Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down