News Archive

  • Philae found!
    09.07.2017
    Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
  • Summer fireworks on Rosetta’s comet
    08.07.2017
    ESA's Space Science Image of the Week revisits Comet 67P/C-G's 'summer fireworks' during #perihelion2015 two years ago.
  • A HUGE THANK YOU!
    07.08.2017
    As we're sending certificates to thank all people involved in the Rosetta mission, we wish to acknowledge a truly special contribution: a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who followed this extraordinary mission and made it even more incredible!
  • NASA Honors Comet Science Pioneer Michael A'Hearn
    06.28.2017
    NASA has posthumously awarded the Exceptional Public Service Medal to Michael A’Hearn, one of the world’s leading comet scientists. A’Hearn died May 29 at his home in University Park, Maryland at the age of 76.
  • Rosetta finds comet connection to Earth's atmosphere
    06.08.2017
    The challenging detection, by ESA's Rosetta mission, of several isotopes of the noble gas xenon at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has established the first quantitative link between comets and the atmosphere of Earth. The blend of xenon found at the comet closely resembles U-xenon, the primordial mixture that scientists believe was brought to Earth during the early stages of Solar System formation. These measurements suggest that comets contributed about one fifth the amount of xenon in Earth's ancient atmosphere.
  • Rosetta’s ongoing legacy
    06.05.2017
    Rosetta’s operational mission ended in September 2016, but for the scientists and instrument teams the mission is far from over. Scientists have only scratched the surface analysing the amount of data produced by the mission. As this information is scrutinised, new discoveries are made, including a surprise final extra image taken by the OSIRIS camera during the spacecraft’s controlled descent onto the comet.
  • The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observation campaign in support of the Rosetta mission
    05.30.2017
    We present a summary of the campaign of remote observations that supported the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. Telescopes across the globe (and in space) followed comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from before Rosetta's arrival until nearly the end of mission in September 2016.
  • Comet 67P Found to Be Producing Its Own Oxygen in Deep Space
    05.10.2017
    The finding shows that oxygen can be generated in space without the need for life, and could influence how researchers search for signs of life on exoplanets.
  • The Aswan cliff outburst.
    The pristine interior of comet 67P revealed by the combined Aswan outburst and cliff collapse
    05.04.2017
    A bright outburst of activity from the nucleus of comet 67P, observed by Rosetta in July 2015, is traced back to a cliff that partially collapsed at the same time as the outburst, establishing a link between the two events.
  • The Many Faces of Rosetta’s Comet 67P
    03.21.2017
    Images returned from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission indicate that during its most recent trip through the inner solar system, the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was a very active place – full of growing fractures, collapsing cliffs and massive rolling boulders. Moving material buried some features on the comet’s surface while exhuming others. A study on 67P’s changing surface was released Tuesday, March 21, in the journal Science.

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