According to a study that will be published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, mass extinctions occurring over the...
An international team of scientists from India and the United States has uncovered evidence that a massive comet or asteroid impact on Earth 66 million...
According to a new paper in the journal Nature, two comets collided in the early Solar System to give rise to the extraordinary shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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The Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) mass spectrometer aboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has detected the noble gas argon,...
Researchers using the Visible, InfraRed and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer aboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft have identified a region on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
On Sunday, September 13, the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) discovered its 3,000th comet.
The dot in the cross-hairs is a comet streaming...
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have devised a new way to get into orbit and land on Solar System’s small bodies.
Comet Hitchhiker...
ESA’s Rosetta orbiter yesterday witnessed 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun. The comet and the spacecraft were 186 million...
A dramatic short-lived outburst from 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was captured by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard ESA’s Rosetta orbiter on July 29,...
A special issue of the journal Science highlights seven new studies that delve into the data that has been collected by ESA’s probe Philae on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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In a new study published online in the journal Nature, 18 almost circular pits have been identified in the northern hemisphere of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko....
Rosetta’s nominal mission was originally funded until the end of this year, but at a meeting yesterday, the European Space Agency has given formal approval...
The European Space Agency (ESA) and its Rosetta mission partners are working to juggle the spacecraft’s flight plan to help with renewed Philae lander...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae lander has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The Philae...
Observations of the inner coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph onboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal...
Rosetta mission scientists have discovered an unusual geological formation in the Aker region on the large lobe of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Complementary data collected by the Rosetta Plasma Consortium fluxgate magnetometer (RPC-MAG) on board ESA’s Rosetta orbiter, and by the Rosetta Lander...
Carbon from cometary material that bombards Mercury, the first planet from the Sun, may be the reason the planet’s surface is heavily dark, says new...
