Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to ...

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 ...

Sometime in November, if all goes well, astronomers will fulfill a dream that humankind has had ever since we first marveled at one of those impetuous dots of light with a long tail streaking ...

The Rosetta mission, expected to land on a comet, was named after the Rosetta Stone, which allowed hieroglyphs to be deciphered. In 1799, in the Egyptian city of Rosetta, archaeologists discovered a ...

ChaSTE probe on Chandrayaan-3 successfully measures moon's temperature, surpassing previous missions' struggles with thermal ...

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, ...

European Space Agency ready to retrieve data from 'one of the oldest remnants of our solar system' A mission to land a probe on a comet millions of miles from Earth has ended with a successful ...

It turns out the Rosetta was hiding something pretty cool. A year after the space probe crash-landed into a comet, scientists have now discovered that it was actually able to take one final image.