Rosetta

Space News September 5, 2016

ESA found Philae on comet

Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet…

Space News November 12, 2014

Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet

ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. After…

Space News November 11, 2014

Live updates: Rosetta mission comet landing

On 12 November, Rosetta’s Philae probe is set to make the first-ever landing on a comet when it touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Separation of…

Space News September 15, 2014

‘J’ marks the spot for Rosetta’s lander

Rosetta’s lander Philae will target Site J, an intriguing region on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko that offers unique scientific potential, with hints of activity nearby, and minimum…

Space News August 25, 2014

Rosetta: Landing site search narrows

Using detailed information collected by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft during its first two weeks at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, five locations have been identified as candidate sites to…

Space News August 6, 2014

Rosetta arrives at comet destination

After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in…

Space News August 4, 2014

Rosetta takes comet’s temperature

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has made its first temperature measurements of its target comet, finding that it is too hot to be covered in ice and…

Space News January 20, 2014

ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation

It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant…

Space News July 12, 2010

Rosetta triumphs at asteroid Lutetia

Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESAâ€™s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing…

Space News September 3, 2009

XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

3 September 2009 ESA’s XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion…