Comets
New Mosaic Reveals Jets Blasting from Rosetta’s Comet
Hidden among the four new images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko released by ESA this week are a pair of dusty jets…
What Comets, Parking Lots and Charcoal Have in Common
All the pictures we've seen of Rosetta's target comet 67P/C-G show it reflecting brightly against the background of outer space.…
How Do You Land on a Comet? Very Carefully.
ESA has announced that on September 15, the team from the Rosetta mission will reveal the landing site for the…
Rosetta Now Up Close to Comet 67P – Snapping Mapping Mosaics for Momentous Philae Landing
Four-image photo mosaic comprising images taken by Rosetta's navigation camera on 31 August 2014 from a distance of 61 km…
Caterpillar Comet Poses for Pictures En Route to Mars
Now that's pure gorgeous. As Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring sidles towards its October 19th encounter with Mars, it's passing a trio of sumptuous…
Rosetta’s Comet Looms In The Dark In Close-Up Spacecraft Shot
Wow! Rosetta is getting ever-closer to its target comet by the day. This navigation camera shot from Aug. 23 shows…
5 Landing Site Candidates Selected for Rosetta’s Historic Philae Comet Lander
Five candidate sites were identified on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for Rosetta’s Philae lander. The approximate locations of the five regions are…
Rosetta Moving Closer to Comet 67P Hunting for Philae Landing Site
http://youtu.be/CNGu7KbXzOs Animation Caption: Possible landing sites on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The model shows the illumination of the comets surface and regions…
Australian Amateur Terry Lovejoy Discovers New Comet
It's confirmed! Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy just discovered his fifth comet, C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). He found it August 17th using a Celestron…
Gravity Isn’t The Only Thing Holding Asteroids Together: Study
How do asteroids hold their rubble piles together? Previously, scientists said it was a combination of friction and gravity. But…