The Rosetta mission has narrowed down the selection of possible landing sites to just five candidates, but it's going to be tricky to touch down. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

The European Space Agency’s $1.6 billion Rosetta spacecraft completed a deliberate crash landing on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko early Friday, a slow-motion kamikaze plunge to bring ...

(CNN) — The Rosetta space probe has crash-landed on the surface of a distant comet, ending a remarkable 12-year mission that made a series of breakthrough discoveries. It was the final act of an epic ...

ESA’s historic Rosetta mission has concluded as planned, with the controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years Confirmation of the end of the mission arrived at ...

The Rosetta probe was launched all the way back in March 2004, and reached its destination in August 2014. With Rosetta now in orbit around the comet, the plan is for its robotic lander, Philae, to ...

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