Cross-section of comet 67P showing the 3D model of the layered structure compressed and folded by the collision of the lobes (arrows indicate the direction of compression). Disclaimer ...

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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The comet was discovered on August 12, 2023 by Hideo Nishimura during 30-second exposures with a ... [+] standard digital camera.

Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November of 2014. But when its landing harpoons failed to ...

A comet heading towards our planet might be visible to the naked eye in the next few months. The comet, named Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), was first discovered in early 2023, and has been ...

Project. We’ll know more in two weeks. That’s the headline news about Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which could become a naked-eye object in late September and mid-October as seen from the northern ...

One expert predicts that the comet could reach peak brightness by the second week of October, nearly as bright as Venus, making it faintly visible even in daylight. We could see a comet pass ...

We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked-eye object in our October evening skies. We are now coming down the home stretch regarding ...

For the first time in history, the Democratic National Committee credentialed more than 200 content creators to have a front-row seat to cover the event, giving them equivalent status to ...

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