The Spaceguard Centre & Observatory

MANY FAMOUS COMETS MAY BE VISITORS FROM OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS

Most comets are thought to have originated great distances away, travelling to the inner solar system from the Oort Cloud.

HAYABUSA ON COURSE FOR AUSTRALIA LANDING ZONE

Five days before it will fall into the Australian outback, Japan's returning Hayabusa asteroid mission finished targeting the landing site Tuesday in a final ion engine burn.

SPACE PROBE ENTHRALLS JAPAN AS IT HEADS HOME

Japan is counting down to the homecoming of a space hero next week: not an astronaut but a battered machine limping back from a seven-year odyssey to a distant space rock.