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You can name the spot where humans will land a robot on a comet
We are less than one month away from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission dropping a lander on the surface of a comet. While the mission and spacecraft already have their names, the […]
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ESA’s Rosetta probe confirms that comet 67P really stinks
What does a comet smell like? That’s probably not a question you’ve ever asked yourself, but now that the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft is hovering in the general vicinity of...
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Rosetta gets up close and personal with a comet, snaps awesome images
We're being treated to some spectacular views of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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Rosetta’s massive comet 67P compared to a scale Boeing 747
As the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta probe has closed on comet 67P, it has started sending back really amazing pictures of its surface. As cool as the images are, it can be […]
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ESA has officially named the site where humans will land on a comet
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft is currently in orbit of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but it’s no longer targeting “landing site J.” The location has been granted the much more...
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Philae has separated from Rosetta and is on its way to the comet surface
At 8:35am GMT this morning the Philae lander attached to the Rosetta spacecraft successfully separated from its mothership. There were a lot of happy people inside mission control at the European Space...
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ESA’s Philae lander successfully touches down on a comet, but harpoons have...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has spent more than a decade planning for today, and it seems to have gone well. After traveling millions of miles through the solar system and slingshotting around […]
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Philae probe bounced 1 kilometer off comet’s surface due to harpoon failure
Cheers erupted in Rosetta’s mission control facility when the Philae lander sent back the signal indicating it had successfully touched down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It turns...
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Philae has gone to sleep, and we may never hear from it again
There can be no question that what the European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved with the Rosetta project is remarkable, but as we have heard in the last few days, not everything went […]
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Rosetta’s camera captures Philae bouncing across comet surface
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae probe has gone to sleep on comet 67P after the landing didn’t go exactly to plan, but newly released images taken from Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera system show […]
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The first true color image of Comet 67P looks like Mars
The Rosetta spacecraft took the first true color image of comet 67P, replacing the famous grey image of the rock.
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Rosetta samples suggest Earth’s water is not from comets
Results suggest Jupiter-family comets have too wide a variance in water makeup to be responsible for delivering most of Earth's water.
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Earth may be able to create its own water without help from comets
Earth may not have needed comets to deposit water on this rock we call home, the planet could have created all it needed from rocks. Yes. Rocks.
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Latest data shows Philae may have been saved by a crater rim
If it hadn't grazed the surface on its second contact, the team suggests it might have ended up completely covered in shadows.
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2014’s top 10 moments in science
2014 was a monster year for science, as we explored further into the universe and deeper into ourselves than ever before.
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Rosetta images reveal crack hundreds of meters long in comet 67P
In the latest set of images published by the ESA, scientists reveal comet 67P is coming apart at the seams.
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ESA’s Philae lander wakes up on the surface of comet 67P
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has had its share of ups and downs. Last year Rosetta became the first spacecraft to successfully enter orbit of a comet and the Philae lander became […]
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Scientists realize Comet 67P used to be two comets
While our attention has been drawn to Pluto and NASA’s New Horizon probe recently, the ESA’s Rosetta probe is still doing important work as it orbits comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. 67P has two...
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Rosetta finally locates Philae lander a month before the mission ends
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is set to come to an end later this month, but it just made an interesting discovery — the Philae lander. The...
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Rosetta mission ends with crash landing on comet 67P
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission accomplished many firsts in human space exploration. It was the first probe to reach a stable orbit around a comet, the first one to successfully...
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