Rosetta, the first comet orbiter, shares final moments before crashing The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday after two years of orbit around Comet ...

Oxygen discovered on Rosetta comet, stunning scientists ...

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 ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on ...

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 ...

Even in the Rosetta's final hours, the European Space Agency will steer the probe so it can take unprecedented close-up images of the comet This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article ...

The Sky at Night team follow the unfolding drama at ESA's Rosetta HQ, 12 November 2014 Maggie and Chris take notes at ESA's 6.30am news conference on the day of the landing Homepage ...