UPDATE 6:39 am EDT: Rosetta’s mission came to an end as it gently crashed into the surface of Comet 67P. Here are a ...

On Friday (Sept. 2), Rosetta was within 2.7 kilometers of the comet’s surface when it captured this image. Enhance. Philae! Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle ...

A few hours ago, the Electrical Support System Processor Unit aboard the Rosetta spacecraft was switched off. And with it, the communications link ...

September 30. That’s the date the European Space Agency is going to deliberately crash the Rosetta spacecraft on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This won’t be ...

During Earth’s early years, comets and asteroids pummeled the planet and brought water and organic molecules with them. Billions of years ago, Earth ...

Comet 67P slipped right between the spacecraft and the Sun, and the Rosetta team was ready to snap the image. Rosetta was positioned ...

The last time the European Space Agency received a signal from Rosetta’s lander (Philae) was on July 9, 2015. Attempts to establish contact ...

Last year, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft reached comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For months, Rosetta studied the sun-facing portions of the comet. But what ...

We’ve come a long way in our understanding of comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In March 2014, the ESA’s Rosetta probe took its first image of ...

It’s called the Visible, InfraRed and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, or VIRTIS. And it’s one of 11 science instrument packages aboard the ESA’s Rosetta ...

It’s called perihelion. The time when Comet 67P makes its closest approach to the sun. ‘Close’ is relative in space. For Comet 67P, ...

Rosetta’s mission team has plenty to smile about this month. The Philae lander woke up for a seven-month hibernation. And today, the Rosetta ...