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 ...

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 ...

In June 2011, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft reached a dead end as it approached about 500 million miles away from the sun, near Jupiter’s orbit where the solar-powered craft ...

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 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 ...

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 ...