Rosetta, Europe's Comet-Chasing Spacecraft: Latest News, Images and Video
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By Irene Klotz Published
Gravity measurements taken by the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft show the body of comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is about 75 percent dust and 25 percent ice all the way through.

By Irene Klotz Published
The odds aren’t great. Engineers don’t even know if Philae still has a working receiver and the probe could be covered in dust.

By Elizabeth Howell Published

By Elizabeth Howell Published
In a surprise finding for scientists, the Rosetta spacecraft detected molecular oxygen in the gas streaming off comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

By Nola Taylor Tillman Published
Scientists with ESA's Rosetta mission named two surface features on comet 67P/C-G for scientists from the mission team who recently passed away.
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