Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first ...

After a decade of travel, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at a comet early this morning. "Ten years we've been waiting in the car to get to scientific Disneyland," ESA's Mark ...

A sequence of images showing comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko moving against a background star field in the constellation Ophiuchus between March 27 and May 4, 2014 as the distance between the ...

After 10 years spent traveling more than 6 billion km through space, Europe’s Rosetta mission has arrived at its destination — 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — becoming the first spacecraft in history to ...

Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta dipped out of orbit Friday with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been following for more than a decade. Its final radio ...

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...

After becoming the first probe to heroically land on a comet this past November, the Philae lander has died. The European Space Agency (ESA) vessel had unfortunately fallen into shadowed crevice on ...