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, ...

Asteroids, made mostly of rock, have long been considered a ... giving liquid to Earth has been questioned. In 2014, Rosetta's analysis of Comet 67P surprised scientists by showing a deuterium ...

A gospel superstar, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) combined traditional gospel music with virtuoso guitar solos on her Gibson SG to create a groundbreaking sound that would ...

It was also Europe’s year with Rosetta, the European Space Agency’s ‘comet chaser’, reaching Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, entering orbit and landing its probe on it. Moving to human space ...