In 2014, after a ten-year journey, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft finally reached its destination: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For the next two years, Rosetta orbited the ...

During its time studying comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft revealed that comets are active, dynamic objects with shifting landscapes and complex chemistry ...

Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 08:18 GMT from an altitude of about 5.8 km during the spacecraft’s final descent on 30 September. Rosetta ...

If you’ve been following the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta/Philae mission on comet 67P (a.k.a. Churyumov-Gerasimenko), then you probably know all about how comet lander Philae didn’t make it ...

On Wednesday, Europe's Philae lander will come to the official end of its long goodbye from the surface of its comet speeding toward the distant reaches of our solar system. The Rosetta orbiter -- ...

The Rosetta mission grabbed the world's attention in November when a tiny robotic lander managed to hitch a ride on a speeding comet some 317 million miles from Earth. Using images from the OSIRIS ...

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own version of the northern lights. Observations taken by the Rosetta spacecraft reveal the comet’s aurora, which — unlike Earth’s eye-catching light shows — ...

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NEWS: Two scientists have suggested that Comet 67P could harbor a form of alien life. In July 2015, two astronomers proposed a rather surprising explanation for some of the peculiar physical ...

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‘But all the comets they love it just to see one of us make it.’ ‘But all the comets they love it just to see one of us make it.’ It’s almost showtime: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the target of ...