world news Philae - Lost....and Found! The lost lander has been spotted on the "Space Duck" comet it landed on 664 days ago. 05/09/2016
World Over the moon: delight as space probe Philae is found European space scientists are celebrating tonight after finding a comet lander they’d almost given up hope of ever seeing again. 05/09/2016
Sci-tech Spacecraft Rosetta prepares to crash-land on comet 67P The extraordinary mission of ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft around comet 67P is nearly over: on 30 September the craft will crash land on its surface and end a 12 year voyage through… 05/08/2016
World Farewell Philae: Communication cut to Rosetta's probe for final time The first space probe to land on a comet has had its communications cut with Earth for the final time. 28/07/2016
world news Philae probe probably 'covered in dust and too cold to operate' European scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with space probe Philae, which successfully landed on a comet in a pinpoint operation 12/02/2016
world news Rosetta mission finds oxygen on comet 67P The Rosetta mission has detected oxygen on comet 67P, a discovery that could change our understanding of how the solar system formed. 28/10/2015
world news Rosetta: duck comet is double bill The rubber duck-shaped comet being tracked by Europe’s Rosetta probe is in fact a double bill. Scientists say data from the probe shows the comet 29/09/2015
World [Live] Follow comet 67P's perihelion on social media At around 4AM EST ( 2AM GMT), the comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be the closest to the Sun since the European Space Agency mission Rosetta 12/08/2015
World Rosetta comet’s closest approach to the Sun The Rosetta 67P comet makes its closest approach to the Sun on Thursday, August 13, 2015, promising a flurry of activity as it reaches the special 03/08/2015
World Rosetta space mission extended, ESA announces The European Space Agency has extended its Rosetta mission for nine months, the maximum possible duration until the craft will be running out of fuel 24/06/2015
world news Spacecraft Philae wakes up after seven months on a comet and contacts mother Earth 14/06/2015
world news Rosetta: Waking Philae, ESA's sleeping beauty Rosetta scientists start a fourth period of attempts to make contact with the Philae lander which has been in a deep sleep on Comet 67P since November 2014. 30/05/2015
World Rosetta captures some of the first 67P comet close-ups These are among the first close-up images of a comet being studied by European Space Agency (ESA). ESA completed the first ever comet landing in 18/02/2015
Sci-tech Space technology beams down to Earth Space missions have an increasing impact on our daily lives down on Earth. Technologies used up there can be transferred for use in medical science and other areas. 16/12/2014
world news Comet didn't bring water to Earth, according to early Rosetta results Early results from Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft challenge the theory that comets delivered water to our planet. On analysis of water coming from 11/12/2014
Germany Philae finds organic molecules on comet The Rosetta probe has managed to detect organic molecules in the comet’s atmosphere, before it ran out of power. The Philae lander instruments 18/11/2014
World Rosetta's Philae lands on comet 67P and enters the history books The European Space Agency (ESA) has landed a probe on a comet. It is a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long mission to get 12/11/2014