The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

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“Molecular oxygen is very hard to find out there in the universe,” says Caltech chemical engineer Konstantinos Giapis. When the Rosetta spacecraft detected oxygen around comet 67P, astronomers argued ...

This image from Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera shows part of a large fracture in the neck of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team ...

A particularly dramatic view of comet 67P/C-G due to the angle of solar illumination, this is a mosaic made from four images acquired by Rosetta's NavCam on January 16, 2015, from a distance of 28.4 ...

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When precariously-perched rocky material on comet 67P’s Aswan cliff lost its balance and tumbled down from the top, the landslide left something behind that scientists weren’t exactly expecting to see ...

Almost 5 years after a European Space Agency mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended, scientists reported new findings about the comet’s chemistry at the American Chemical Society Spring 2021 ...

Approximate true color image of comet 67P taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on March 17, 2015. This image is a four frame mosaic, with each color frame imaged through ...

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