Rosetta's OSIRIS camera team has launched a new website to showcase their recent images of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The high-resolution images, taken either with the narrow- or wide-angle ...

Incredible new images show the breathtaking journey of Rosetta's Philae lander as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014.

During the very first observations of Rosetta's flyby target 2867-Steins in March 2006 the onboard camera OSIRIS obtained the most accurate 'light curve' of this asteroid so far. During the very first ...

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock. A ...

The camera system that Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS) is providing for NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has successfully completed environmental testing at Lockheed ...

On Nov. 12, 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission made history when its Philae lander touched down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. While this exciting technical ...

After months of painting Comet 67P's barren surface with shades of gray, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally released its first colored image of the space rock, which shows valleys, cliffs, and craters ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — An OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona on April 14 according to UA News, brought the spacecraft within just over 200 feet of the surface of the ...

As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zeroed in on its target, the asteroid Bennu, the object transformed from a fuzzy dot into an incredibly bumpy world full of sharp contrasts. But those images don't produce ...

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock. A ...