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

But science thanks you, Rosetta. Video courtesy of ESA. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years ...

ESA detected the sound using several instruments aboard the Rosetta spacecraft, which was speeding alongside the comet. After months of orbiting its target, the Rosetta spacecraft is finally ready ...

Not the most inviting of companions, but that didn't stop ESA scientists from getting a good look. The flyby was the closest that Rosetta will ever get to a comet, and the series of pictures it ...

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, ...

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 ...

Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...

The unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram lander Philae, shown in this artist's conception, at 0835 GMT (3:35 ET) on Nov. 12. (J. Huart/ESA; ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD ...

The cost for Esa is expected to be about €150m. As is customary, individual member states will provide the instrumentation and cover that tab. Rosetta spent two years at Comet 67P, taking ...

1. The comet approaches the sun. 2. Water molecules sublimate from the comet as it thaws. 3. The water molecules are ionized by ultraviolet light from the sun. 4. Newborn ions are accelerated by ...