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

Over the year, Rosetta recorded up to two bathtubs' worth of water vapor and 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of dust escaping ...

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 ...

way back when ESA first launched the Rosetta spacecraft in 2004. The latest instrument Philae is using is a type of hammering device, shown below, that will penetrate the comet's surface and ...

Oxygen discovered on Rosetta comet, stunning scientists ...

Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until its first bounce landing. The European Space Agency captured the “song” of the ...

Despite the many challenges, Philae impressed as it sent fascinating data and images from the comet's surface. The 'potato' turns out to be a 'rubber duck' But let's recap: The European Space Agency's ...

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 ...

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, ...

It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member ...