CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. So do look up, contrary to the title of the killer-comet movie “Don’t Look Up.” Discovered less than a year ago, this harmless green comet already is visible in the northern night sky with binoculars and small telescopes, and possibly the naked eye in the darkest …
The mission will allow scientists to know about the history of the solar system as never seen before. The mothership will be built in the UK by Thales Alenia Space and will hold two smaller robotic probes from Japan that can be released when in close proximity to the comet for extremely close fly-bys. He added that the mission will …