The Rosetta-Philae mission was groundbreaking, but Philae’s landing on comet 67P didn’t go as planned. Why did the lander ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It was a car that was launched into space seven years ago. To be specific, it ...

Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid — only to realize that the ...

The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades — including the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, NASA's Lucy probe, the joint European ...

Among the study's key findings were that air pollution inequalities can be measured from space. Satellite data analyzed by the research team revealed that NH 3 levels were significantly higher in ...

This isn't the first such incident of this nature. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has also been misidentified as an asteroid in the past, as has NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy ...

NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in deep space at the L2 Lagrange point was added to the MPC's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) several times, while the Rosetta ...

This mix-up could have had serious consequences: What an amateur astronomer reported as an asteroid and was initially classified as such by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in ...

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...