New York, Oct 3 (IANS) In a big blow to finding signs of life on other planets, astronomers have detected faint molecular fingerprint of me...

New York, March 22 (IANS) A large and growing crack on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko recorded by European Space Agency's Rosetta miss...

Chennai, Feb 14 (IANS) Russian company Isotope (part of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation) on Tuesday said it has supplied Cm-244 alp...

Washington, Oct 1 (IANS) A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft sh...

London/Washington, Sep 29 (IANS) The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission is set to complete its historic 12-year journey in a con...

London, Sep 26 (IANS) European Space Agency's Rosetta, the first probe in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Su...

Now, for the first time, repeated detections at a comet have been confirmed by Rosetta in Comet 67P/C-G's fuzzy atmosphere, or coma.

Researchers have identified two large patches of water ice on the surface of comet 67P, perhaps the most studied comet in history.

"We use every known technique to see through Jupiter's clouds and reveal the secrets Jupiter holds of our solar system's early history," sa...

The finding suggests the oxygen molecules were incorporated into the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its formation.

The sinkholes were recently discovered on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland.

The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet by ESA's Philae spacecraft has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year fo...

Comets are space debris or leftover fragments after the formation of the solar system. They originate from a region beyond the orbits of th...

Two harpoons that should have anchored the washing machine-sized Philae to the surface did not properly deploy when it hit the comet.

On a day when European Space Agency is attempting to place a robot Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ISRO today released images of...

Philae's landing site, currently known as Site J, is located on the smaller of the comet's two 'lobes', with a backup site on the larger lo...

ESA's comet-chasing space probe woke up from a 31 month long hibernation on January 20, 2014, nine million kilometres from the comet.