The adventure continues: ESA today confirmed that its Rosetta mission will be extended until the end of September 2016, at which point the spacecraft will most likely be landed on the surface of Comet ...

PARIS, 30 September (BelTA - Xinhua). - European Rosetta spacecraft has ended its historic 12-year mission on comet chasing and made a crash-landing after collecting materials that "will keep ...

Images sent back by ESA's Rosetta comet probe show that it wasn't only thing orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G). A comparison of images taken four years ago when the comet was closest ...

Images returned by the Rosetta mission show dramatic evidence of collapsing cliffs and bouncing boulders on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Collected by the unmanned ESA probe from August 2014 to ...

On Earth, auroras, also called northern lights, have always fascinated people. An international consortium involving the University of Bern has now discovered such auroras in the ultraviolet ...

Astronomers have previously spotted glowing auroras surrounding planets, as well as Jupiter's moons — but now, for the first time, they've found the dancing light show on a comet. Aurora, known as the ...

French President François Hollande, center, with French astrophysicist Francis Rocard, looks at a model of the Rosetta lander Philae as they visit the Cité des Sciences at La Villette in Paris during ...

At around 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT) today (Sept. 30), Rosetta is scheduled to crash-land intentionally on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ending the European spacecraft's epic 12-year mission. The ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Rosetta mission in 2004 to study the particularly captivating comet 67P, and after a ten-year journey, the mission arrived at its destination. With the ...

Churymoon is likely the biggest piece of debris yet spotted by the Rosetta mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Europe's ...