On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet.Rosetta launched in 2004 and ...

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 attempt a ...

BERLIN, Germany -- Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta performed its final task Friday, dipping out of orbit for a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been following ...

The space probe Rosetta made a historic rendezvous with a comet on Wednesday, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency ...

Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander is approaching a comet today for a historic landing that could yield new insights about the origins of the universe. Scientists at the European Space Agency and NASA ...

BERLIN, Germany -- Europe's Rosetta space probe has located its lost Philae lander, wedged in a "dark crack" on a comet, the European Space Agency said Monday. Rosetta's camera finally captured images ...

Update: On 23 November, ESA reported that no anomaly was detected during Rosetta’s 13 November fly-by, deepening the mystery of why some fly-bys show unexpected changes in velocity. To date, the only ...

Updated 1:50 p.m. EST A comet-chasing space probe woke up from hibernation on Monday, after scientists waited an agonizing several hours for the craft’s signal to reach earth. The probe Rosetta was ...

The European Space Agency probe Rosetta embarks on an exciting mission to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, set to arrive in 2014. The European Space Agency probe Rosetta is on its way to comet 67/P ...

Inside the European Space Agency, engineers and scientists are wrestling with big ideas. For them, questions about our origins and whether we are alone are not philosophical, but motivations for ...