The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - ...

After traveling 6.5 billion kilometers from home, the spacecraft Rosetta was ready to drop our lander Philae onto the surface of comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Arriving at my workstation at th ...

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rosetta's arrival at Comet 67P — the first comet that a spacecraft orbited and landed on ...

They will catch a comet. The Rosetta spacecraft, launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency, will have closed in on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after looping more than 3.7 billion miles ...

This image, taken by ESA’s Rosetta navigation camera, was taken from a about 53 miles from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on March 14, 2015. The image resolution is 24 feet per ...

Caption Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in March 2015. Comet 67P was the first comet ever known to emit molecular oxygen, a molecule ...

Europe's Rosetta mission officially ended Friday when the spacecraft purposefully crashed into its comet after spending two year orbiting the icy object in deep space. As the mission came to its ...

Then came the Rosetta mission. In 2014, the European spacecraft measured water on comet 67P and found a D/H ratio three times higher than Earth’s. The discovery challenged earlier findings and ...

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, ...