The ESA's Rosetta mission achieved its original goals by landing Philae on the comet and sending data—including amazing photos—back to Earth. However, Philae's landing was bumpy, and the lander wound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet.Rosetta launched in 2004 and ...

Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta dipped out of orbit Friday with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it's been following for more than a decade. Its final radio ...

This newly released image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken as the Philae lander first approached it, is breathtaking even in two dimensions. But if you've got red-blue 3-D glasses on hand, ...