Scientists have found a "high abundance" of oxygen the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- but can't yet explain why it is there. The "surprised" European Space Agency (ESA) Scientists discovered ...

Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long ...

Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September. The mission is coming to an end as a result of the spacecraft’s ever-increasing distance ...

Squeezing out unique scientific observations until the very end, Rosetta’s thrilling mission will culminate with a descent on 30 September towards a region of active pits on the comet’s ‘head’. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander.Philae is a spacecraft about the ...

A review of data taken over the course of the two-year Rosetta mission shows that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was sometimes reddish in appearance, while at other times it assumed a bluish hue.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own version of the northern lights. Observations taken by the Rosetta spacecraft reveal the comet’s aurora, which — unlike Earth’s eye-catching light shows — ...

Early tomorrow morning, November 12, the European Space Agency will attempt to land on comet 67P. The Rosetta spacecraft, which has spent the last 10 years chasing down comet 67P, will release its ...