The European Space Agency's historic Rosetta mission is nearing paydirt – landing a robot on a comet. After a 10½-year journey through the Solar System chasing Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet C ...

Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus, are beginning ...

Next week, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will try and land a probe on the surface of a moving comet - something even NASA says will be extremely hard Get daily headlines and breaking ...

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 ...

Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus, are beginning ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which back in January awoke from 957 days hibernation on its way to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has now started its first ...

ESA's Rosetta space probe is to try and land on 12 November - here's what's going to happen Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We have more ...

On Nov. 13, the European Space Agency's comet orbiter spacecraft, Rosetta, swooped by Earth for its third and final gravity assist on the way to humankind's first rendezvous to orbit and study a comet ...

Boulder, Colo. -- Jan. 14, 2010 -- On Nov. 13, the European Space Agency's comet orbiter spacecraft, Rosetta, swooped by Earth for its third and final gravity assist on the way to humankind's first ...