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Robotic comet explorer Rosetta sent home a last-gasp photo of her target’s rocky facade before crashing into its surface to end a 12-year deep-space...
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Landslides are not unique to Earth, researchers revealed on Tuesday. In 2015, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft witnessed — and photographed — a big one on...
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Ground controllers bid a final farewell Wednesday to robot lab Philae, cutting communications after a year-long silence with the tiny probe hurtling through space...
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Rosetta is the name of a space probe, designed by the European Space Agency. The probe was launched in March 2004, from Guiana Space...
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Europe’s trailblazing Rosetta spacecraft will end its mission on September 30, reuniting with robot lab Philae on the surface of a comet hurtling through...
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According to new research, we are now no longer in the “safe zone”, but entering a dangerous period as our solar system passes through...
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The European space probe Rosetta captured a range of scientific data as it trailed an ancient comet past the Sun which could help scientists...
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The European Space Agency announced Tuesday that its historic comet-chasing mission Rosetta had been extended until the end of September 2016. “The adventure continues,”...
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Europe’s tiny robot lab Philae, hurtling through space on the back of a comet, awoke overnight and sent home its first message in nearly...
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Hypothesized by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1950 to explain long-period comets having large, eccentric orbits taking thousands of years to circle the Sun,...