Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The scientists hoped the Rosetta mission would similarly reveal new clues about how our pocket of the universe assembled ...

ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Philae landed in November 2014, but lost contact with the orbiting Rosetta probe that dropped it on the comet. “It was very important to find Philae before the mission ended, to understand the ...

The European Space Agency is to launch another mission to a comet. After the hugely successful Rosetta encounter with the icy dirt-ball known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, officials have ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A member of the science team for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission will be at Western Michigan University this month to present a talk on the successful first mission to ...

Death on A Comet is an inside look at a dedicated team of scientists and engineers and their ambitious dream to build a space mission that will chase catch and land ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

The hopes are that using the Rosetta orbiter and its landing craft ... the formation and evolution of the Solar System. The mission's most important tasks are: overall characterisation of the comet ...

BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...