Rosetta, the space probe of the European Space Agency (ESA), has more than fulfilled its mission in the Lutetia asteroid, located between Mars and Jupiter. This was not its final destination, but a stopover on his way to the comet 67P/Churyumov/Gerasimenko, which it is scheduled to come into contact with in May, 2014. The Rosetta represents one of the most ambitious science missions of the ESA.

ALICIA RIVERA | JULY 23, 2010

The mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta has obtained the first images of asteroid 2867 Steins. Pictures taken by both cameras of the OSIRIS instrument show that the asteroid has an unusual diamond-shape, with an effective diameter of 5.3 kilometres and a large crater near the south pole of the asteroid of 2.1 km in diameter. The study is published in the journal Science.

Staff | 8 January 2010

There are made expressions, created by someone clever and then repeated a thousand times, appearing over and over again in the texts that disseminate a scientific fact.

16 November 2009

Mónica Salomone, Madrid