The Rosetta spacecraft has ended its 12 year journey into deep space, with a controlled crash landing on an icy comet -- 700 million kilometres away from Earth. It's mission was to help answer one ...

After a journey of more than 10 years and a few months in orbit, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft is now less than 24 hours from landing its Philae probe on Comet 67P ...

Rosetta completed its free-fall descent at the ... such as getting a spacecraft into orbit around a comet and the unprecedented landing of a probe on the surface. A handful of previous spacecraft ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander ... DLR played a major role in the construction of the lander and operated the Lander Control Center (LCC), from where the difficult ...

To say it was a bumpy landing would be an understatement. Philae separated from an orbiter called Rosetta. It was supposed to use harpoons to secure itself on to the comet surface, but the ...

"The really big result will be if Rosetta's landing probe... detects 'chiral amino acids'," John Plane, a professor at the University of Leeds in London, said in a statement released by the ...