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 ...

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 ...

On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to ...

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.

The Rosetta mission, expected to land on a comet, was named after the Rosetta Stone, which allowed hieroglyphs to be deciphered. In 1799, in the Egyptian city of Rosetta, archaeologists discovered a ...

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European Space Agency ready to retrieve data from 'one of the oldest remnants of our solar system' A mission to land a probe on a comet millions of miles from Earth has ended with a successful ...

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in March 2015. Comet 67P was the first comet ever known to emit molecular oxygen, a molecule rarely ...

The Sky at Night Rosetta: A Sky at Night Special An in-depth look at the attempt to land the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft on a comet. BBC Four ...