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With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, the Philae comet lander has been found wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Philae data suggest that organic compounds - which eventually translated into living organisms here on Earth - existed in the early solar system.
The Rosetta team is hoping that a software patch will help re-establish reliable contact with the little Philae lander, lodged somewhere on the comet's surface.
Since the Philae comet lander renewed contact on June 13, the Rosetta mission team has struggled to establish a stable link.
Seven months after it lost contact with Earth, the Rosetta mission's Philae lander hibernating on comet 67P has woken up and tweeted, "Hello Earth!"
ESA hopes communications with the Philae comet lander can be regained by May or June. Wait you're waiting, check out these stunning newly released images!
Take 2 seconds to listen to a sound made 311 million miles away.
Never-before-seen images of a bouncy comet landing! Shows Philae lander attempting to touch down in the weak gravity field of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The first-ever comet lander - Philae - made history this week by spending some 57 hours gathering data on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
As of Thursday morning, November 13 - after initially failing to attach to the surface - Philae is now stable and is sending back pictures.
Listen in on a mysterious sound produced by Rosetta's comet. ESA says the comet song is due to "oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet's environment."
Five finalists named as potential landing sites this November for Philae lander in ESA's fabulous Rosetta comet mission. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, here we come.
Famous comet 67P/C-G will sweep closest to Earth in November. Finder charts help you locate this comet before it leaves for another 193 years.
Meet Arrokoth - the most distant object yet visited by earthlings - seen by the New Horizons spacecraft in early 2019. It's very old, one of the first generation of objects in our solar system. Here's why it looks like a snowman.
Scientists released the OSIRIS Image Viewer to make the amazing images of comet 67P - acquired by the Rosetta spacecraft - easily accessible on the internet.
Rosetta journeyed through space for 12 years and performed early flybys of Earth, Mars and 2 asteroids before arriving at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It produced nearly 100,000 images. Some of the best, here.
On July 3, 2016 - as Comet 67P erupted with a plume of dust - the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft happened to pass right through the dust cloud.
Radar images of close-passing large asteroid 2014 JO25, which swept near last week, show it looks a lot like Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which was explored by the Rosetta spacecraft.
ESA's great Rosetta comet mission has come to an end. Details from its final hour, here.
An otherworldly take on an earthly trend, as Rosetta posed with its comet, 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, in 2014.
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