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 attempt a ...

The Rosetta-Philae spacecraft successfully touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, uncovering remarkable findings during its mission. Yet, there were setbacks as Philae's tenure on the ...

She says scientists got "only good things," adding all four of Philae's solar panels are collecting energy and the spacecraft's internal temperature was in the correct range. Mark McCaughrean, a ...

The field of view covers the west limb of the sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the ...

A spacecraft built in Colorado will travel to the moon, searching for one of the most critical resources for future space exploration: water. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a small but powerful ...

The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed.And, quite ...

PEOPLE FROM AS FAR AS THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND TURKS AND CAICOS ALSO CAPTURED VIDEO OF THE BLAST, AND THAT FIERY DEBRIS ROCKET WAS TASKED WITH REIGNITING ANOTHER STARSHIP ENGINE IN SPACE AND ...

On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon, making the Texas-based startup the second private company in history to pull off the feat.

Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations.

A private spacecraft has landed on the Moon, becoming only the second commercial vehicle to reach the lunar surface. Blue Ghost left Earth on January 15, after being launched by US firm Firefly ...