Building blocks of life found in comet by NASA researchersWhile until recently, scientists thought that the formation of amino acids like glycine required energy, setting clear constraints to the e...
- Rosetta probe records growing crack on comet
New York, March 22 (IANS) A large and growing crack on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko recorded by European Space Agency's Rosetta miss...
- Don't miss the final image that Rosetta captured
Washington, Oct 1 (IANS) A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft sh...
- Rosetta comet mission set for final rendezvous in space
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...
- Trailblazing Rosetta mission comes to an end on Friday
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...
Comets may have sparked life on Earth: StudyNow, for the first time, repeated detections at a comet have been confirmed by Rosetta in Comet 67P/C-G's fuzzy atmosphere, or coma.
Water ice found on surface of comet 67PResearchers have identified two large patches of water ice on the surface of comet 67P, perhaps the most studied comet in history.
Oxygen detected on comet for first timeThe finding suggests the oxygen molecules were incorporated into the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its formation.
Scientists have measured a comet's impenetrable shield in action for the 1st timeThe solar wind can travel millions of miles into deep space, and when it bombards comets the high-energy particles interact with the water ...
How to watch tomorrow's meteor shower created by a rogue cometIt's called Comet 69P/Machholz, and it's the most-likely suspect responsible for the annual meteor shower happening this week.
Mysterious pits on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet are actually enormous sinkholesThe sinkholes were recently discovered on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland.
Philae comet landing named physics breakthrough of the yearThe 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...
Learning with the Times: Comets originate beyond orbits of outermost planetComets are space debris or leftover fragments after the formation of the solar system. They originate from a region beyond the orbits of th...
ISRO releases picture of comet taken by Mars OrbiterOn a day when European Space Agency is attempting to place a robot Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ISRO today released images of...
Comet trailer: You watched Mangalyaan, now prepare for another celestial journeyScientists believe that comets may have been the first solids to condense out of the solar nebula from which the solar system was born.
European spacecraft to land on comet in NovemberPhilae'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...
Europe's Rosetta makes a historical first by arriving at a comet after a 10-year chaseESA's comet-chasing space probe woke up from a 31 month long hibernation on January 20, 2014, nine million kilometres from the comet.