To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rosetta's arrival at Comet 67P — the first comet that a spacecraft orbited and landed on ...

Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until its first bounce landing. The European Space Agency captured the “song” of the ...

An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ...

For years, astronomers and astrochemists have puzzled over two big mysteries in space. First, they noticed that dense clouds ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

The European Space Agency is to launch another mission to a comet. After the hugely successful Rosetta encounter with the icy dirt-ball known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, officials have ...

Scientists uncovered new insights regarding the potential role of comets, particularly Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in delivering water to early Earth. A new study led by Kathleen Mandt, a ...

The Rosetta mission and others have shown just how ubiquitous ... The inventory of small organic molecules that Rosetta detected so far in comet 67P mostly lines up with what scientists would ...

The Rosetta mission, expected to land on a comet, was named after the Rosetta Stone, which allowed hieroglyphs to be deciphered. In 1799, in the Egyptian city of Rosetta, archaeologists discovered a ...

The Rosetta spacecraft has ended its 12 year journey into deep space, with a controlled crash landing on an icy comet -- 700 million kilometres away from Earth. It's mission was to help answer one ...

New research indicates that the water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a molecular signature closely matching that of water found in Earth's oceans. This discovery revives the possibility that ...

The 1 km high cliff in the photo is located on the surface of the comet. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the unmanned Rosetta spacecraft, which captured images of Comet Churyumov ...