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Comet 67P
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A Little ‘Churymoon’ Was Seen Circling Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
A small chunk of rock measuring just under four meters (13 feet) across appears to orbit Comet 67P…
Comet 67P Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
A stunning new image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows off a drab, alien landscape. Amateur astronomer Jacint Roger Perez…
NASA’s Kepler Trades Bright Stars For Dim Comet 67P
NASA’s Kepler telescope is best known for looking for minuscule dips in brightness around stars to spot planets.…
Ma’at Marks The Crash Spot For Rosetta (UPDATE)
UPDATE 6:39 am EDT: Rosetta’s mission came to an end as it gently crashed into the surface of…
Finding Philae. Rosetta Probe Spots Little Lander as Its Mission Nears End
On Friday (Sept. 2), Rosetta was within 2.7 kilometers of the comet’s surface when it captured this image.…
Rosetta Adds Weight to Comet Life-Seeding Theory
During Earth’s early years, comets and asteroids pummeled the planet and brought water and organic molecules with them.…
Rosetta Spies a Comet 67P Eclipse
Comet 67P slipped right between the spacecraft and the Sun, and the Rosetta team was ready to snap…
The Latest on ESA’s Last Ditch Effort to Contact Philae Lander
The last time the European Space Agency received a signal from Rosetta’s lander (Philae) was on July 9,…
Oxygen Was Detected on Comet 67P and Why That’s Huge
Last week, it was alcohol on Comet Lovejoy. Yesterday, it was oxygen molecules on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Oxygen joins…
Comet 67P – What’s on the Dark Side?
Last year, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft reached comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For months, Rosetta studied the sun-facing portions…
Scientists Now Have an Answer for Comet 67P’s Odd Shape
We’ve come a long way in our understanding of comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In March 2014, the ESA’s Rosetta probe…
The Rosetta Instrument Scientists Used to Reveal the Comet’s Water-Ice Cycle
It’s called the Visible, InfraRed and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, or VIRTIS. And it’s one of 11 science instrument…