06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
...landing on 12 November 2014. “With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, we are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and ...OSIRIS camera. Unfortunately however, the end is nigh for Rosetta, as the spacecraft’s ever-increasing distance from the ...
30 November 2020
Researchers discover solid phosphorus in comet 67P
... to Earth by comets. Launched on 2 March 2004, Rosetta, a space probe built by the European Space Agency (ESA...been detected on comet 67P/C-G by another of Rosetta’s instruments - ROSINA (Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis). This...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
.... Using data captured with the ROSINA instrument on ESA’s Rosetta mission and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)...Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) that was the target of the Rosetta mission and around an infant star about 400 light-...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... was later transformed to the dinitrogen-filled skies that we see today. However, recent data from the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, on its isotopic and noble gas constraints, suggests that a large...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
... onto any samples it manages to collect and return them to Earth in 2020 for further study. After the Rosetta mission threw up a few surprises with the type of water it was mainly composed of (it had to much heavy water...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
... with an estimated diameter of just 1.2 kilometres. The icy space rock was the original target for ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft but the launch window was missed so 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko became the missions target in the...
