Does the organic material of comets predate our solar system?0
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- September 12, 2017
The Rosetta space probe discovered a large amount of organic material in the nucleus of comet ‘Chury.’
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Rosetta’s last words—science descending to a comet0
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- December 17, 2016
ESA’s Rosetta completed its incredible mission on 30 September, collecting unprecedented images and data right until the moment of contact with the comet’s surface.
Final descent image from Rosetta spacecraft1
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- October 1, 2016
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet’s surface on Sept. 30, 2016.
Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft to end epic trek with comet crash landing0
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- September 24, 2016
After 12 years chasing a comet across more 6 billion km of space, European scientists will end the historic Rosetta mission by crash landing the spacecraft on the surface of the dusty, icy body at the end of the month.
Rosetta’s Comet Is Even Weirder Than We Thought0
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- June 2, 2016
Scientists finally have a theory as to why comet 67P—also known as Rosetta’s comet—has two distinct lobes.
Key Building Blocks Of Life Hiding In Comet Dust – Did An Extraterrestrial Object Bring Life To Earth?0
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- May 30, 2016
Comets might hold the key to how life started on earth.
Building blocks for life may have come to Earth from outer space0
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- May 29, 2016
Scientists say adding a high concentration of those molecules to a body of water could have produced the “primordial soup” that gave birth to life on our planet more than 4 billion years ago.
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