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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...