particularly Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in delivering water to early Earth. A new study led by Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has renewed focus ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

Researchers have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar ... planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mandt led the research ...

This image, taken by ESA’s Rosetta navigation camera, was taken from a about 53 miles from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on March 14, 2015. The image resolution is 24 feet per ...

The team studied a rubber duck-shaped comet known as 67P that has two cracks, each longer than a football field, on a neck that connects its two large lobes. The team used numerical models to show ...

Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states as well as NASA. It was launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Aug. 6, 2014. The mission's ...

Sixteen different organic molecules were discovered by scientists working on the Rosetta experiment – a project that landed a probe on comet 67P in 2014 ... and sugars. NASA scientists found ...

Nasa has also reported a very small chance that ... However, past discrepancies between predictions of the comet 67P, as seen by the Hubble telescope from far away, versus its actual shape ...