The European Space Agency’s $1.6 billion Rosetta spacecraft completed a deliberate crash landing on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko early Friday, a slow-motion kamikaze plunge to bring ...

This image shows that Philae landed safely on the surface of the comet. SA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA SHARE During the final ...

The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday by crash-landing onto the comet that it had circled for the last two years. The intentional landing occurred at 1 ...

In a special edition of the journal Science, initial results are presented from seven of Rosetta’s 11 science instruments based on measurements made during the approach to and soon after arriving at ...

After a 10-year odyssey highlighted by four velocity-boosting planetary flybys, two asteroid encounters and two-and-a-half years spent in electronic hibernation, Europe's $1.7 billion Rosetta ...

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