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Rendezvous with a comet

Taylor, Matt

After making a successful rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko earlier this year, Europe's Rosetta craft is now riding alongside this celestial body and next month is set to land a probe on its surface. Matt Taylor describes the excitement of this unique project and the scientific insights that it hopes to achieve.

Philae probe makes history as it lands on a comet

Commissariat, Tushna

Space scientists celebrated last month after the European Space Agency (ESA) landed a probe on a comet for the first time.

Rosetta rendezvous with comet following 10-year chase

Commissariat, Tushna

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet.