Space probe's shadow is visible on icy comet it has been orbiting. Close-up view of a region on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as seen by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera during Rosetta’s flyby, Feb.

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 ...

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 ...

After intercepting the speeding comet, a wealth of findings. The photo recently released by ESA and taken by OSIRIS wide-angle camera on the Rosetta space probe, Nov. 22, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/AP ...

A comet-chasing space probe woke up from hibernation on Monday, after scientists waited an agonizing several hours for the craft’s signal to reach earth. The probe Rosetta was switched back on at 11 a ...

Rise and shine, Rosetta! A European space probe dubbed Rosetta woke up Monday from a deep sleep to prepare for an unprecedented comet-chasing spaceflight — an event that will cap its decade-long trek ...

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 ...

FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - After 12 years chasing a comet across more 6 billion km of space, European scientists will end the historic Rosetta mission by crash landing the spacecraft on the surface ...

BERLIN — Scientists have found further evidence that comets harbor the building blocks of life, and have collected the first close-up data that will help them understand how these celestial bodies ...

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 ...

European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will be woken up from deep-space hibernation on 20 January 2014 to reach its final destination, reported ESA today. “Comets are the primitive building blocks ...

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 ...