Found on July 15, 1799, by French soldiers on a mission in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone was a most fortunate find. The stone’s ...

Rosetta is a spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency with a 10-year mission to rendezvous with a comet.

At around 10:30 am EST Wednesday morning, a small probe named Philae made history — by becoming the first spacecraft to ever land on a comet. After a seven hour journey down from Rosetta, the ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft just made history as the first man-made probe to fly side-by-side with a comet.

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 Rosetta mission will reach its climax on Wednesday when scientists attempt to land a spacecraft on a moving comet. Here’s why we should all be excited.

For a billion miles, the tireless spacecraft called Rosetta has shadowed an icy comet through the solar system, enduring dust storms, fountains of gas and the comet’s mood swings.

After hibernating for 31 months in the cold of deep space, the European Space Agency's solar powered Rosetta probe, finally returning to the light and warmth of the inner solar system, woke itself ...

Spacecraft gave scientists their first in-depth look at behavior of comet. — -- A year after Rosetta first slipped into orbit around comet 67P, the European Space Agency's probe continues to ...