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

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) passed its closest point to Earth on Oct. 23, reaching a magnitude of 8.7, far too dim to be seen with the naked eye. Still, telescopes were able to catch a glimpse of the icy ...

This meant Philae had indeed landed on the comet (for the second time) and was still transmitting data. The following day, analyses of the images from OSIRIS, the orbiter's camera that had captured ...

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 ...

A recently discovered comet that scientists and amateur astronomers hoped would be visible on Halloween was in an orbit a … ...

Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), an instrument aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), reveal ...

A comet nicknamed the “Halloween comet” disintegrated ... investigator for the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph instrument suite, a set of three telescopes on the Solar and ...

The comet, which is much brighter in SOHO's view ... (LASCO refers to the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment instrument, a set of three coronagraph telescopes launched in 1995 ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its closest approach to the Sun on Monday. The affectionately nicknamed ...