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 ...
Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...
On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...
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' ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days ...