The Rosetta-Philae mission was groundbreaking, but Philae’s landing on comet 67P didn’t go as planned. Why did the lander ...

Rosetta spacecraft finds water on Earth didn’t come from comets Where did Earth's water come from? For years, scientists believed comets could have delivered it to Earth. But the Rosetta ...

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

Last week, the Rosetta spacecraft crashed into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after orbiting it since 2014. It was supposed to do that: the mission was at an end, and the mission designers wanted ...

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 landing team at mission control in Darmstadt first had to sweat through a tense seven-hour countdown that began when Philae dropped from the agency's Rosetta space probe as both it and the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft caught a rare eruption in space. Produced by Keegan Larwin. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow TI ...

In case you missed it, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft successfully landed a probe onto the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko earlier this week, marking the first time we’ve ever ...

2014 saw an Indian spacecraft enter Mars’ orbit, Rosetta’s Philae landing grip the world and the sighting of an Earthly exoplanet - Science in Action looks back with Stuart Clark. Show more ...