Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The scientists hoped the Rosetta mission would similarly reveal new clues about how our pocket of the universe assembled ...

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary feat, we celebrate Philae's impressive achievements at Comet ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

The weird shaped comet 67P captured by Rosetta. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was discovered near Kiev, Ukraine in 1969. This interestingly shaped comet ...

is not always pretty—and never was this more evident than when the Rosetta spacecraft sent its Philae lander down to the surface of Comet 67P in 2016. The comet—a thing of light and loveliness ...

Rosetta mission have helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora. 'Northern lights' surrounding Rosetta's famous comet Astronomers find "northern lights" ...

Dr. Giri was also a scientific crew member of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. He is a recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the 2014 ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is currently making a pass by our Sun − and for the next few days, it's visible in the night sky. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) appeared in the morning sky late ...