22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
..., NASA has announced that either a return trip to comet 67P/C-G or Saturn’s moon Titan will be the next target...chance to explore their destination of choice, are the proposed Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission or Dragonfly. A...
06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
...and a further two hour flight, the lander ended up on the comet’s smaller lobe at a location later named Abydos. Images of the ... this at the final hour.” Dropping a lander onto a comet hurtling around the Solar System was an extraordinary feat in its...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune Trojans, several new objects with high inclinations and an Oort cloud comet named after its discoverers; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein). “The DES catalog represents a significant increase in the...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... Systems, Astrophysics and Space Science 212: 23-32 20 Levison, H.F., L. Dones, and M.J. Duncan (2001) The origin of Halley-type comets: Probing the inner Oort cloud. Astron. J. 121, 2253-2267. 21 Wetherill, G.W. (1995) How special is Jupiter? Nature...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
...and one that continues ESA's legacy of 'firsts' at comets." Sequence of images captured by Rosetta during its descent. ... come." "With the decision to take Rosetta down to the comet's surface, we boosted the scientific return of the mission through ...
11 August 2016
Perseids Outburst Promises Spectacular Show on August 11th
...August 11 th, as the Earth passes through the trail of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids meteor shower will rain down at double the..., “The meteors you’ll see this year are from comet flybys that occurred hundreds if not thousands of years ago...
