"Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with and ...
On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...
To do so, the mission's goal was to study an otherwise-unremarkable comet called Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a ...
Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
The union said industrial action in Perth and Kinross had secured ‘fresh commitments’ from the Scottish Government and Cosla.
Responding to the First Minister’s letter, Unison Scotland local government lead David O’Connor said: “These are warm words, not meaningful action. The Scottish Government is ultimately in charge of ...
But the farther from the sun a comet moves, the more it becomes just one more rock. Philae, which landed in a shadow and quickly lost power as its solar cells failed, rides aboard 67P still.
A once-in-a-lifetime comet is currently making a pass by our Sun − and for the next few days, it's visible in the night sky. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) appeared in the morning sky late ...
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail.' Miguel Claro ...