On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...

Comet 67P up close, in an image taken by the Rosetta spacecraft. ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA However, past discrepancies between predictions of the comet 67P, as seen by the Hubble ...

Rosetta mission during its two-year close flyby and observation of the comet 67P from 2014 to 2016. In 2015, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft detected the boulder shifting approximately 140 meters ...

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A celestial body is any natural object outside Earth's atmosphere. This includes stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets and meteoroids.

However, past discrepancies between predictions of the comet 67P, as seen by the Hubble telescope from far away, versus its actual shape captured by the Rosetta spacecraft, which explored it up close, ...