SHANGHAI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have attributed the sudden movement of a boulder on the surface of a comet to a phenomenon known as the "rocket effect," which resulted from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In 2007, the Rosetta spacecraft was accidentally designated asteroid 2007 VN84 while it was on its way to make the first-ever landing on a comet. The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"With our research, we are killing two birds with one stone." The research was triggered by results from ESA's Rosetta mission. During this mission, a spacecraft orbited comet 67P between 2014 and ...