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

On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a ...

Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

Caption Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in March 2015. Comet 67P was the first comet ever known to emit molecular oxygen, a molecule ...

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, researchers conclude that the two lobes on the double-lobed comet the Rosetta spacecraft has been monitoring (also known as 67P) were once two ...

To answer these questions, the Rosetta mission has been accompanying and investigating Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for two years – from a distance of several kilometres with the orbiter, and ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states as well as NASA. It was launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Aug. 6, 2014. The mission's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Rosetta spacecraft has been trailing a comet for the last two and a half years, on a slow, spinning ride to it's ultimate destruction. But science thanks you ...

Sixteen different organic molecules were discovered by scientists working on the Rosetta experiment – a project that landed a probe on comet 67P in 2014. These molecules would have been vital ...

Rosetta mission during its two-year close flyby and observation of the comet 67P from 2014 to 2016. In 2015, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft detected the boulder shifting approximately 140 meters ...

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