A remarkable image from ESA’s Rosetta mission captures a spacecraft beside an ancient comet, offering a rare view of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Night of Miracles, episode three. The scientist and the decisive moments of the Rosetta mission. “The lander was shutting ...

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 ...

The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander successfully touched down on a speeding comet today after a 10-year journey through the solar system. The European Space Agency's Rosetta already had gone where ...

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 ...

Rosetta, the European spacecraft nicknamed the "comet chaser," has completed "Mission Selfie" with the ship's Philae lander snapping a quick pic with Comet 67P/C-G looming in the background. The ...

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 ...