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

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft was doing just the same - it snuggled up nice and close to a comet. Rosetta's comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is 100 million times more massive ...

Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016. ESA/ATG medialab/Handout via REUTERS The Rosetta spacecraft ended its ...

Last week, the Rosetta spacecraft crashed into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after orbiting it since 2014. It was supposed to do that: the mission was at an end, and the mission designers wanted ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

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