Polar cap on dwarf planet? On the last stretch of a voyage which has already exceeded nine years and 5 billion kilometers, NASA’s
570 billion times brighter than the Sun... A source of light which emerged billions of years ago on the sky in not fully
Optimism evaporates as host comet nears Sun...The optimistic expectations, triggered by a message on June 13 from the long-dormant lander Philae which
“Hello Earth, can you hear me?” The lander Philae, which the European Space Agency (ESA) put on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last
After chasing it for more than a decade, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft finally arrived at its rendezvous with comet
Besides its icy surface crisscrossed with innumerable crack lines, Europa, one of the four biggest moons of Jupiter, intrigued planetologists for decades
Sleep well, Philae; you were fantastic!Completed its assigned tasks before mishaps drained it of powerThree days after it pulled off a first
Scientists struggle to explain the properties and behaviour of a planet discovered by the Kepler spacecraft shortly before it was relieved of
Right planet, wrong star...A new study by a team of astronomers has shown that an extrasolar planet most resembling the Earth was
The announcement March 27 of the discovery of a second dwarf planet has consolidated the evidence that the solar system extends far
