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Philae phones home for the eight time
Jul 10, 2015 (AFP)
Europe's robot lab Philae, zipping towards the Sun on a comet, has called home for the eighth time since waking up from hibernation last month, French space age...
Rosetta spacecraft sees sinkholes on comet
Jul 05, 2015 (SPX)
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft first began orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014. Almost immediately, scientists began to wond...
18 holes in outer space: Comet's crater's revealed
Jul 01, 2015 (AFP)
After billions of years of solitary travel through cold, dark outer space, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has recently yielded many secrets, often surprising o...
Telescopes focus on target of ESA's asteroid mission
Jul 01, 2015 (ESA)
Telescopes around the globe recently homed in on one point in the sky, observing the paired Didymos asteroids - the target for ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact Mi...
Million-mile journey to an asteroid begins for ASU-built instrument
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
A journey that will stretch millions of miles and take years to complete begins with a short trip to a loading dock. The OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectromete...
NASA Wants to Nuke Asteroids That Threaten to Destroy Earth
Jun 28, 2015 (Sputnik)
NASA has joined forces with a nuclear arms agency to learn more about how to deflect, or possibly destroy with nuclear power, asteroids or comets that may colli...
OSIRIS-REx Team Prepares for Next Step
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
The various instruments that will enable OSIRIS-REx to safely travel to asteroid Bennu, take a sample and return it to Earth are being readied for shipment to t...
Exposed water ice detected on comet's surface
Jun 28, 2015 (ESA)
Using the high-resolution science camera on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, scientists have identified more than a hundred patches of water ice a few metres in ...
Rosetta tracks debris around comet
Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)
In two papers, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, scientists provide an update on their study of debris around the comet. The studies are r...
MIRO maps water in comet's coma
Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)
In a paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, the MIRO team present their first map of water vapour in the coma of Comet 67P/Ch...
Rosetta comet-chasing mission extended to September 2016
Jun 23, 2015 (AFP)
The European Space Agency announced Tuesday that its historic comet-chasing mission Rosetta had been extended until the end of September 2016. "The adventure co...
Comet probe Philae dials home, 'doing very well'
Jun 19, 2015 (AFP)
Europe's robot lab Philae phoned home on Friday after several days silence in its journey towards the Sun on the back of a comet and is "doing very well", the G...
Scientists set plan for new tests with comet probe
Jun 17, 2015 (AFP)
Space scientists on Wednesday unveiled their plan to put the revived robot lab Philae back to work with experiments to monitor, sniff and prod a comet hurtling ...
Philae wake-up triggers intense planning
Jun 16, 2015 (ESA)
The receipt of signals from Rosetta's Philae lander on 13 June after 211 days of hibernation marked the start of intense activity. In coordination with its miss...
The quest to find Philae
Jun 16, 2015 (ESA)
Rosetta and Philae teams continue to search for the current location of the lander, piecing together clues from its unexpected flight over the surface of Comet ...
UCLA-led NASA mission provides closest ever look at dwarf planet Ceres
Jun 16, 2015 (JPL)
A NASA mission led by UCLA professor Christopher Russell has released new images of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. The p...
Asteroid Icarus to Make Distant Pass Tuesday
Jun 16, 2015 (JPL)
Asteroid Icarus will safely pass by Earth at more than 21 times the distance of Earth to the moon on June 16. To put it another way, Icarus, one of the first ne...
Lander makes fresh contact from comet surface: agency
Jun 15, 2015 (AFP)
Europe's robot lab Philae has called home once more, a day after sending its first message in seven months in its trek towards the Sun on the back of a comet, m...
New scientific dawn may beckon for Europe's comet lab
Jun 15, 2015 (AFP)
Europe's comet probe Philae may soon resume work after seven months in hibernation, delving deeper for existential secrets thought to lie hidden under the surfa...
'Hello Earth': Comet probe Philae wakes up
Jun 14, 2015 (AFP)
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 seven months, mission o...
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