Comets
Curiosity Rover Snaps Photos of Comet Siding Spring, Giant Sunspot and Mars-shine
NASA's Curiosity Rover spends most of its time staring at the ground, but like humans, it looks up once in a while too.…
Infographic: The Rosetta Comet-Probing Mission Cost As Much As Four Jetliners
What price do you put on scientific discovery? From the way Twitter lit up last week when the Philae spacecraft…
Comet-Bouncing Philae Spacecraft Caught On Camera In Newly Enhanced Images
When the Philae lander arrived at its target comet last week, the little spacecraft landed three times in two hours…
Philae Idled, Batteries Drained; Needs Luck, Sunshine to Awake
Contact with the Philae lander was lost at 6:36 p.m. (CST) this evening, November 14th, before the normal loss of…
Can Philae Power Up After Doing A Triple Comet Landing Into Shadowy Spot?
Update, 10 p.m. EST: Philae is now asleep, according to the European Space Agency, for what could prove to be…
Music to Celebrate the Rosetta Mission
We report on the Rosetta mission to share the news and follow the progress of the precarious-perched Philae. But sometimes it takes…
Concerns over ESA’s Data Release Policy Amidst Rosetta Comet Landing
This week, history was made as the Rosetta mission's Philae lander touched down on the surface of 67P/Churnyumov-Gerasimenko. Days before…
New Images from Philae Reveal Comet’s Ancient Surface
We may not know exactly where Philae is, but it's doing a bang-up job sending its first photos from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.…
Philae’s First Photos; Update on its Troubled Landing
Hey, we're getting closer! This photo was taken by Philae's ROLIS instrument just 1.8 miles (3 km) above the surface…