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

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta ... Over the year, Rosetta recorded up to two bathtubs' ...

Frozen gases, in the form of ice, boulders, and rock dust, make up a comet’s nucleus. Observations of comet 67P reveal that it is rich in carbon and that several chemical compounds previously unknown ...

Green, for example, indicates dust and ice particles less than a third ... sent its Philae lander down to the surface of Comet 67P in 2016. The comet—a thing of light and loveliness from a ...

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

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...

The comet's dust trail was more visible in a Navy space telescope than any other. A dazzling comet left behind a dramatic dust tail as it swept around the sun, new photos reveal. C/2023 A3 ...

A dazzling comet left behind a dramatic dust tail as it swept around the sun, new photos reveal. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was visible to the naked eye earlier in October as the comet ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...