The Other Comet

A heavy load of dust cast off by the comet Siding Spring 2013 as it hurtled past Mars last month could have damaged the fleet of scientific orbiters circling the planet, had they not tweaked their orbits to be as far away from potential danger as possible. Preliminary results from the Oct. 19...

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