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Geologic Maps of Vesta from NASA's Dawn Mission Published
Nov 17, 2014 (JPL)
Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surfa...
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
Nov 17, 2014 (ESA)
Rosetta's lander has completed its primary science mission after nearly 57 hours on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. After being out of communication visibility...
Savvy media use turned comet mission into tale of space heroics
Nov 17, 2014 (AFP)
When Rosetta was launched more than a decade ago, it was a dry-as-dust science story -- an unmanned spacecraft and its research payload were being launched to i...
Images show Philae's historic comet bounce
Nov 16, 2014 (AFP)
The European Space Agency (ESA)on Sunday unveiled images of the probe Philae after it bounced while making its historic landing on a comet last Wednesday. The d...
Triumphant comet probe sends last-gasp data from 'alien world'
Nov 15, 2014 (AFP)
Robot probe Philae uploaded a slew of last-minute data to Earth Friday from a comet in deep space, before going to sleep at the end of its historic mission, gro...
Comet probe uploads last-minute data from 'alien world'
Nov 15, 2014 (AFP)
Robot probe Philae uploaded a slew of data to Earth Friday from a deep-space comet that it drilled into long after its onboard battery was feared to have died. ...
Comet probe sends back drill experiment data in final hours
Nov 15, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's science probe Philae sent home a treasure trove of data from a comet heading towards the Sun before falling silent as its power ran out, mission contro...
Comet probe in race against time to crown stellar feat
Nov 14, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's deep-space robot lab Philae worked against the clock Friday, attempting to drill into a comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth to ...
Philae probing comet with hours left on battery
Nov 14, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's probe Philae was busily conducting experiments on a comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth with just hours of onboard battery life...
Philae to attempt comet drill: mission scientist
Nov 14, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's robot lab Philae will attempt Friday to drill into its host comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth, with just hours of onboard bat...
Despite landing bounce, comet probe working well
Nov 13, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's comet probe Philae was "working well" despite a rough-and-tumble touchdown that left it partly shadowed from battery-boosting sunlight, ground controll...
Probe separates from orbiter, heads to comet: ESA
Nov 12, 2014 (AFP)
The European probe Philae on Wednesday was on course to make the first-ever landing on a comet after separating from its mother ship, mission control said. Phil...
Tail discovered on long-known asteroid
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
A two-person team of Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory has discovered a new active asteroid, called 62412, in the Solar ...
European Spacecraft Set to Harpoon a Comet Tomorrow
Nov 12, 2014 (JPL)
Early tomorrow morning, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will deploy its comet lander, "Philae." A little over seven hours later (8 a.m. PST/11 a....
Probe lands on comet in space first: ESA
Nov 12, 2014 (AFP)
The European probe Philae has made the first-ever landing on a comet, a crowning phase in a quest to explore the origins of the Solar System, the European Space...
Touchdown! Rosetta's Philae probe lands on comet
Nov 12, 2014 (ESA)
ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. After a tense wa...
A close-up with a comet
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
Even as Tom Economou approached retirement age in 1994, he began planning an instrument for the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to a comet. He still rem...
European probe lands on comet, fails to anchor
Nov 12, 2014 (AFP)
Europe made history Wednesday by placing the first-ever lander on a comet -- but the robot failed to anchor itself properly, raising concerns at ground control....
'Target locked': Comet mission eyes Wednesday landing
Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)
European scientists are gearing for the culmination of two decades' work and a 1.3-billion-euro ($1.6-billion) bet with the first-ever landing on a comet on Wed...
Rosetta: The dark side of the comet
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
Rosetta's scientific imaging system OSIRIS has caught a glimpse of the southern side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. During the past months, this side has c...
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