Rosetta Completes Earth Swing-By

The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta is currently en route to meet up with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the fringes of the solar system. The two are scheduled to first see each other in 2014. The probe was launched back in 2004, and it has completed about 4,500 mil... [ read more >> ]

This is an artist's view of ESA's Rosetta cometary probe

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Image credits: ESA / J. Huart

This is an artist's view of ESA's Rosetta cometary probe