This image, taken by ESA’s Rosetta navigation camera, was taken from a about 53 miles from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on March 14, 2015. The image resolution is 24 feet per ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Caption Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in March 2015. Comet 67P was the first comet ever known to emit molecular oxygen, a molecule ...

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 ...

To answer these questions, the Rosetta mission has been accompanying and investigating Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two years – from a distance of several kilometres with the orbiter, and ...

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The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states as well as NASA. It was launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Aug. 6, 2014. The mission's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years, on a slow, spinning ride to it's ultimate destruction. But science thanks you ...

Sixteen different organic molecules were discovered by scientists working on the Rosetta experiment – a project that landed a probe on comet 67P in 2014. These molecules would have been vital ...