Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and spent the next decade chasing after Comet 67P. When it arrived in 2014, Rosetta dropped a small lander called Philae onto the comet.

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 Philae probe landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 6:03 ... was celebrated by the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission, which said that gravity on the comet is so weak that ...

This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency calls Rosetta, took advantage of four ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Philae landed in November 2014, but lost contact with the orbiting Rosetta probe that dropped it on the comet. “It was very important to find Philae before the mission ended, to understand the ...

A year after placing a spacecraft in close orbit around a comet, European scientists are expecting to collect a fresh trove of data as the comet makes its closest approach to the sun. Gautam Naik ...

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 ...

Sixteen different organic molecules were discovered by scientists working on the Rosetta experiment – a project that landed a probe on comet 67P in 2014. These molecules would have been vital ...