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 the climax of a decade-long mission, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday is scheduled to land a small probe on the surface of a comet – something that has never been ...

It was also the only mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet. Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and spent the next decade chasing after Comet 67P. When it arrived in ...