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Rosetta space probe

The latest news and comment on the Rosetta space probe

March 2017

  • Astronomy: Landslide results in outburst on comet 67P Image 2 NavCam image taken on 10 July 2015 at 156.58 km far from the 67P nucleus. The spatial scale of the image is 15.81 m/pixel. (original with white arrow showing the outburst caused by the Aswan cliff collapse (in shadow here)).

    Comet landslide recorded for first time by Rosetta astronomers

    Images reveal dramatic collapse of a 100 metre-long cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

October 2016

  • Matt Taylor

    Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor: ‘I think comets bring the funky organics’

  • Clothes hang on razor wire at a makeshift refugee and migrants camp close to the border between Serbia and Hungary.

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The 20 photographs of the week

September 2016

  • Title Comet landing site Released 30/09/2016 1:10 pm Copyright ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Description Sequence of images captured by Rosetta during its descent to the surface of Comet 67P/C-G on 30 September. Id 366081

    Rosetta probe lands on comet 67P ending 12-year mission

  • ExoMars space mission<br>Undated handout photo issued by the European Space Agency of an artist's impression of the ExoMars 2016 Schiaparelli separating from Trace Gas Orbiter. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday March 11, 2016. Europe's historic search for life on Mars is set to take off on Monday as a heavy-lift Russian rocket blasts into space from Kazakhstan. The Proton rocket will launch the first of two ExoMars missions, together costing 1.2 billion euro (£924 million), designed to uncover signs of past or present life on the Red Planet. See PA story SCIENCE Exomars TGO. Photo credit should read: ESA/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    After Rosetta: what next for the European Space Agency?

  • Rosetta Mission

    Subdued reaction to Rosetta probe landing on comet 67P – video

  • The rugged surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

    Across the universe
    Rosetta mission ends with touchdown on comet 67P - as it happened

  • First Thing newsletter
    Clinton campaign jumps on Trump's 'Cuba violation'

  • Rosetta probe set to collide with comet 67P as 12-year mission comes to an end

  • Rosetta space mission: a European success story – video explainer

  • Brain waves
    The eureka moment: how scientists learn to trust their gut – podcast

  • European Space Agency accused of 'having a problem with promoting women'

  • Eyewitness
    Eyewitness: Outer space

  • Farewell, Rosetta: space mission to end on collision course with comet

  • Brief letters
    Liverpool fans should celebrate Matt Busby and his elegant playing style

  • Philae lander found on comet 67P as Rosetta mission draws to a close

  • Across the universe
    Philae has been found – now every ounce of science can be wrung out of it

    Stuart Clark

May 2016

  • Embargoed to 1900 Friday May 27 European Space Agency handout image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by the Rosetta orbiter in August 2015 when the object was at its closest point to the sun. Rosetta found evidence of basic building blocks of life in gases surrounding the comet. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday May 27, 2016. See PA story SCIENCE Rosetta. Photo credit should read: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Comet 67P atmosphere contains chemicals of life, Rosetta mission finds

    Discovery of amino acid glycine in gas and dust cloud adds weight to the idea that comets crashing to Earth could have brought chemicals crucial to life

February 2016

  • An artists impression of Rosetta’s lander Philae on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The probe has been silent since 9 July 2015.

    Farewell to Philae as Rosetta probe goes into 'eternal hibernation'

    Ground controllers have given up attempts to re-establish contact with the lander, which has been on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since 2014

January 2016

  • A view of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Scientists are trying to coax into life the Philae probe which is stuck in shade on its surface.

    Philae comet probe given one last shake to continue its search for life

    Rosetta mission probe will be told to crank up a flywheel in a bid to shake dust off its solar panels so it can continue work on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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