Comet Interceptor is the first mission selected in ESA’s F-class programme. The mission’s primary science goal is to characterise, for the first time, a dynamically new (long-periodic) comet or ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The risk for Interceptor is that it could be parked up for a quite some time. The Oort Cloud comet will have to have just the right trajectory for the Esa mission. A good sample of candidates will ...

Today, our understanding of comets is largely shaped by the findings of the Rosetta mission; its data continues to be used to gain new insights. However, new missions are also on the horizon. ESA ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

The European Space Agency’s upcoming Comet Interceptor mission, scheduled for launch in 2029, will aim to study a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud. This mission will park in space ...