Rosetta spacecraft finds water on Earth didn’t come from comets Where did Earth's water come from? For years, scientists believed comets could have delivered it to Earth. But the Rosetta ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

Last week, the Rosetta spacecraft crashed into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after orbiting it since 2014. It was supposed to do that: the mission was at an end, and the mission designers wanted ...

The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades — including the European Space ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

2014 saw an Indian spacecraft enter Mars’ orbit, Rosetta’s Philae landing grip the world and the sighting of an Earthly exoplanet - Science in Action looks back with Stuart Clark. Show more ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft caught a rare eruption in space. Produced by Keegan Larwin. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow TI ...

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Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...