Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet. Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and ...

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

In the climax of a decade-long mission, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday is scheduled to land a small probe on the surface of a comet – something that has never been ...

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 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 ...

The last contact with the probe happened on July 9. The team also has to worry about the Rosetta spacecraft that's orbiting the comet. Rosetta is measuring how the comet changes as it barrels ...

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, ...

The craft landed on the surface at a walking pace. The remarkable achievement was celebrated by the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission, which said that gravity on the comet is so weak ...

The European Space Agency’s groundbreaking Rosetta spacecraft achieved a multitude of firsts when it orbited and then landed a probe on Comet 67P in November 2014 before deliberately crashing ...