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

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

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 ...

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

Oxygen discovered on Rosetta comet, stunning scientists ...

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 ...

BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...

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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." ...