It’s a big ask but in essence that is what the Rosetta mission is all about. Rosetta’s target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, isn’t a star of course -- more of a dirty snowball -- but it ...

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OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system of ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, shows a surface with subtle, but significant color variations. To the naked eye comet 67P ...

The European Space Agency is to launch another mission to a comet. After the hugely successful Rosetta encounter with the icy dirt-ball known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, officials have ...

To answer these questions, the Rosetta mission has been accompanying and investigating Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two years – from a distance of several kilometres with the orbiter, and ...

The Rosetta spacecraft has ended its 12 year journey into deep space, with a controlled crash landing on an icy comet -- 700 million kilometres away from Earth. It's mission was to help answer one ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A member of the science team for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission will be at Western Michigan University this month to present a talk on the successful first mission to ...

Death on A Comet is an inside look at a dedicated team of scientists and engineers and their ambitious dream to build a space mission that will chase catch and land ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

The Narendra Modi government has approved Chandrayaan-4, a follow-up mission to the successful Chandrayaan-3, aimed at ...

The final hurdle for Tsuchinshan-ATLAS to surmount will come on the afternoon of Sept. 27, when it arrives at perihelion — the closest point in its orbit to the sun.