UPDATE: 8 a.m. EDT — Rosetta’s official Twitter account announced the completion of its mission in dozens of langauges. It also shared the last picture it took of the surface of comet 67P ...

Data from Southwest Research Institute-led instruments aboard ESA's Rosetta spacecraft have helped reveal auroral emissions in the far ultraviolet around a comet for the first time.

The European Space Agency has completed the Rosetta image archive and you can download all of it for free.

The Rosetta spacecraft transmitted its last image back to Earth on Friday, September 30, a mere ten seconds before a guided crash landing onto Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

It’s over. After orbiting the duck-shaped comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko for 786 days, the Rosetta spacecraft has landed softly on its surface and turned off its instruments for good.

The Rosetta mission comes to an end as spacecraft touches down on surface of comet 67P/ Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Rosetta's historic 12-year mission 30 photos The European Space Agency’s $1.6 billion Rosetta spacecraft completed a deliberate crash landing on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft crash-landed on its target Comet 67P, shown in this artist's illustration, on Sept. 30, 2016, ending a historic 12-year mission to explore and land ...

The Rosetta space probe has crash-landed on the surface of a distant comet, ending a remarkable 12-year mission that made a series of breakthrough discoveries.

The Rosetta spacecraft was the first to orbit a comet. It ended its mission on Friday in a crash landing.