Even as we scrunch closer to our laptops in anticipation of Juno's arrival at Jupiter tomorrow, another mission will soon be concluding. After two years in close company with a dusty comet, the ...

LONDON (CNN) — The Rosetta mission to land a probe on Comet 67P is past the point of no return, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. “There is no going back now,” the agency said ...

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 ...

On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 and spent 10 years chasing down Comet 67P, a rubber-duck-shaped space rock ...

The European Space Agency’s lander called Philae is sending pictures back from a comet speeding through outer space at 11,000 miles an hour. Philae appeared to have landed in just the right place, but ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Europe’s Philae spacecraft did not have much time to do its work after surviving a bounce landing on the surface of a comet, but information it collected is reshaping ...

BERLIN — How do you land a spacecraft on a comet that is streaking by at 41,000 mph? That's a problem scientists have been grappling with for more than a decade as they prepare for one of the most ...