The Spaceguard Centre & Observatory

MISSION TO LAND ON A COMET

Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet– and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoand land a probe on it, two firsts.

METEORITE FROM MARS FELL IN MOROCCO: SCIENTISTS CONFIRM

Rare and expensive fragments of a Mars meteorite fell from the sky in July over Morocco, a team of international scientists confirmed on Wednesday.

JAPAN'S NEXT ASTEROID PROBE APPROVED FOR DEVELOPMENT

Japanese government officials last weeek gave the green light to Hayabusa 2, a robotic explorer due for launch in 2014 on a journey to retrieve and return rocks from a near-Earth asteroid.