Rosetta, the European Space Agency's cometary probe, is pictured in an artist's rendering. After a 12-year journey, the spacecraft slowly crash-landed on the comet it had been orbiting and shut ...

This image was snapped by Rosetta's cameras on October 21, 2015, when the spacecraft was 400 km away from the comet. The circle shows the tiny 4m wide Churyumoon as it orbits the larger parent body.

ESA’s Rosetta mission stands as one of the boldest in European space history. In 2014, after ten years in space, Rosetta ...

While examining data from the ESA's Rosetta mission to study comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a team of scientists noticed a unique kind of far-ultraviolet glow being emitted from around the comet.

Rosetta is different from NASA's Deep Impact mission, in which a spacecraft fired a projectile into a comet in 2005 so scientists could study the resulting plume of matter.

It is back to work for Rosetta the European Space Agency’s comet exploration probe. It will have little time for any Monday morning blues as it starts an unprecedented mission to orbit and land on the ...

ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain speaks at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, on Wednesday to explain the arrival of the spacecraft Rosetta at Comet 67P.

Two Ottawa companies were bursting with pride Wednesday after playing small but important roles in the historic landing of a spacecraft on the surface of a comet. It’s the first time such a feat has ...

The Rosetta spacecraft, launched in 2004 and arriving at its target in 2014, changed space science forever. Its discoveries challenged the theory that comets are frozen leftovers. Watch how ESA’s most ...

The odd 'rubber duck' shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the target of Europe's Rosetta spacecraft from 2014-2016, is thought to have come from this process. Asteroid (25143) Itokawa, visited ...

When Rosetta turned towards Comet 67P during the night and on to its collision path, it was moving at about 30cm/s. As it gets lower, the gravity of the icy dirt-ball will pull it in and speed it up.