Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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1. The comet approaches the sun. 2. Water molecules sublimate from the comet as it thaws. 3. The water molecules are ionized by ultraviolet light from the sun. 4. Newborn ions are accelerated by ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years, on a slow, spinning ride to it's ultimate destruction. But science thanks you ...

Even in the Rosetta's final hours, the European Space Agency will steer the probe so it can take unprecedented close-up images of the comet This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article ...

SpaceX is keeping the launch machine rolling with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Thursday morning. A Falcon ...

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The paper, by N. Thomas at University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "The morphological diversity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko." ...