In the climax of a decade-long mission, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday is scheduled to land a small probe on the surface of a comet – something that has never been ...

Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet. Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years, on a slow, spinning ride to it's ultimate destruction. But science thanks you ...

It turns out the Rosetta was hiding something pretty cool. A year after the space probe crash-landed into a comet, scientists have now discovered that it was actually able to take one final image.

He will be taking a faculty position in WMU's Department of Geosciences this August. The Rosetta spacecraft has found that the water vapor from its target comet is significantly different than water ...

Earlier today, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft said good bye to its precious cargo - the Philae lander, shown above. If the Philae mission is a success, ESA will become the first to ...

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, researchers conclude that the two lobes on the double-lobed comet the Rosetta spacecraft has been monitoring (also known as 67P) were once two ...

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