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Could comets, asteroids be responsible for Earth's rich water reserves? New Nasa study reveals shocking detailsScientists have reevaluated the water composition of Comet 67P, finding it surprisingly similar to Earth's oceans. This challenges previous...
A 'digital heist': Rosetta Stone returns home to London virtuallyThe Rosetta Stone will be "digitally repatriated" to Egypt by Looty, a group of London-based designers, allowing visitors to view it throug...
- NASA to send probe to Titan or a comet by 2025
Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) NASA has picked two concepts for a solar system mission planned to launch in the mid-2020s -- a comet sample retu...
- 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...
- Russia supplies alpha-emitter for India's Chandrayaan-2
Chennai, Feb 14 (IANS) Russian company Isotope (part of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation) on Tuesday said it has supplied Cm-244 alp...
- 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 mission ends journey with crash-landing on comet
London, Sep 30 (IANS) European Space Agency on Friday said its historic Rosetta mission has concluded its remarkable 12-year journey with c...
- 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.
A mission almost 30 years in the making has just profoundly changed what we know about cometsIt's very possible that carbon-carrying comets that smashed into Earth long ago brought the very ingredients needed for life to arise.
We've taken another big step toward asteroid miningThe Arkyd 3, launched successfully from the International Space Station, begins a 90-day low-Earth orbit mission to test its software and c...
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...
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.