It’s a big ask but in essence that is what the Rosetta mission is all about. Rosetta’s target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, isn’t a star of course -- more of a dirty snowball -- but it ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

Jets of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gas were seen coming from a centaur, but what drives them is a big mystery.

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a comet-chasing spacecraft named after the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering ...

This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency calls Rosetta, took advantage of four ...

ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos ...

After 10 years travelling a cumulative distance of over 6.4 billion kilometers, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission was the first ever to land on a comet on Wednesday. As no launcher ...

And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.

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, ...

Space exploration has always been fascinating for its mysteries, making people look beyond the planet and uncover the hidden ...

The Rosetta Stone was vital in understanding the writing system of hieroglyphics, which spent years as a forgotten writing system. After the stone was first discovered, it took many years for it ...

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