An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries — and decide when ...

They will catch a comet. The Rosetta spacecraft, launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency, will have closed in on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after looping more than 3.7 billion miles ...

“When I joined Rosetta in 2013, I’d come in just before the spacecraft came out of hibernation,” he explained. “When you move into a team like that, which has quite a long ...

the European Space Agency's Rosetta and Philae spacecraft that studied a comet; and the now interstellar Pioneer 10 and 11 probes. Voting is open through April 14, while BackerKit pledges close on ...

Engineers will be able to use the data gathered by Rosetta to create the exact spacecraft necessary to carry out the new mission, Squyres said, meaning that there's an even higher chance for success.

TOI-270 d is only 73 light years from Earth and could serve as a 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding an entire class of new planets. A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of ...

TOI-270 d is only 73 light years from Earth and could serve as a "Rosetta Stone" for understanding an entire class of new planets. Exoplanets orbit stars outside of our solar system. Sub-Neptunes ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched in the 1970s for a mission to Venus is now expected to make an uncontrolled return to Earth, according to space debris-tracking experts. Dutch scientist and satellite ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water. A program solicitation that DARPA released ...