After more than 12 years in space and two years at comet 67P, the European Space Agency has said goodbye to its historic Rosetta spacecraft.  The first craft to enter orbit of a comet and deploy the first probe to land on a comet, Rosetta and its Philae lander greatly improved humanity’s understanding of comets, their environments, and the conditions under which the solar system initially formed.
The communication link between the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander was turned off on…
ESA’s Rosetta – and her companion spacecraft – Philae – parted ways on Wednesday, ahead…
The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta – and her robotic lander companion Philae –…
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has awoken from its 957 days in slumber on Monday, ahead of…
The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its…
Astronomers from the Search for Planets Eclipsing Ultra-cool Stars (SPECULOOS) project found an Earth-sized exoplanet…
The Ariane 5 flew for the very last time on Wednesday, July 5, sending government…
Four launches were successfully conducted for the week of July 2 through July 9. The…
European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace teams have conducted the launch of the historic Jupiter…
Intuitive Machines (IM) has selected SpaceX to launch their third mission to the Moon. Named…
The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 – launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA…
As another spacecraft prepares to land on Mars, the Dawn spacecraft recently ended its mission…
NASA’s “Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight)” mission has received another…
The next generation weather satellite, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite “GOES-R”, has arrived in Florida for…
European scientists have confirmed their brave little lander Philae has managed to regain communications with…
Two robotic missions, aimed at gaining further understanding into the threat of asteroids, passed major…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has completed its historic arrival at the dwarf planet Ceres. With the…
Nine years after launching on an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force…
