A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a comet-chasing spacecraft named after the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering ...

Europe's Rosetta mission officially ended Friday when the spacecraft purposefully crashed into its comet after spending two year orbiting the icy object in deep space. As the mission came to its ...

Last week, the Rosetta spacecraft crashed into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after orbiting it since 2014. It was supposed to do that: the mission was at an end, and the mission designers wanted ...

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 ...

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.

"A comet is flying towards us! This is the comet, towards which the Rosetta space probe was supposed to have flown to in 2004. The Wirtanen comet became the brightest comet of 2018. In mid ...

Caption 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 ...

2014 saw an Indian spacecraft enter Mars’ orbit, Rosetta’s Philae landing grip the world and the sighting of an Earthly exoplanet - Science in Action looks back with Stuart Clark. Show more ...