Rosetta

After a decade-long journey through space, the Rosetta spacecraft has spent the past year less than 100km from the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, capturing some stunningly detailed images.

Two astronomers examining the findings of Philae and its mother ship Rosetta say there’s compelling evidence that the comet is hosting microbial life.

The first images of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe comet orbit could provide clues about its origin and how it got its unique shape.

The thing everyone seems to talk about with the moon landings is the idea of the whole world stopping to watch. It was a mission that overcame nationalism, it wasn’t “America” putting a man on the moon, it was “Us” – humankind.

The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet’s surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to go silent, the European Space Agency said Saturday.

The European Space Agency received no signals from the Philae lander Saturday morning during a scheduled effort to establish communication, the mission chief said.

Ground controller will try to adjust the Philae lander to make sure its solar panels can catch the sun and charge its batteries.

What’s the betting that Agilkia makes it into the baby name charts in 2015? This romantic, lyrical word is the name of an island in the Egyptian Nile, but it’s also just been given to the patch of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko where the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander is due to touch down.

Imagine launching a robotic spacecraft on a ten-year mission to land on a comet, 600 million kilometres from Earth, knowing that you will not be able to make any physical repairs to the craft during the journey.

The spacecraft is Rosetta, and its target is 67P/Churuymov-Gerasimenko, named after its Ukrainian discoverers. The spacecraft will study 67P’s nucleus at close quarters as it falls towards the sun, when it will come to life with a tail created by sun’s warmth.

A trip to Irving Farm, Coffee Company in New York City helped to better understand how the latte art (the design that is created on the surface of the latte)is done. Latte is the shortening of the Italian name Caffe Latte which actually means milk coffee. Caffe Latte is just steamed texture milk which is poured into a single shot of expresso.