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The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is slated to wake from a 31-month hibernation Monday (Jan. 20) for its 2014 encounter with a comet. Here's how to watch it live beginning at 4:15 a.m. EST (0915 GMT).

A team of researchers has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets....

Waking up after almost three years of hibernation, a comet-chasing spacecraft sent its first signal back to Earth on Monday, prompting cheers from scientists who hope to use it to land the first space lander onto a comet...

It was a tense half an hour for Rosetta fans all over the world as we waited for a spike in a graph to inform us that Rosetta had awoken from a 31-month slumber to phone home.

ESA Science & Technology : It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant spacecraft for the first time in 31 months.

The silence from the live video feed from the ESA's space operations center in Darmstadt, Germany was almost deafening. Scientists and engineers were waiting to receive a signal from the Rosetta spacecraft, which was sup...

In our previous episode, we introduced Arthur C. Clarke, the amazing man and science fiction writer. Today we'll be discussing his legacy and ideas on space exploration. You'll be amazed to hear how many of the ideas we ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe was scheduled to emerge from a 2.5-year-long hibernation at 5:00 a.m. EST today. See how the spacecraft awoke from its deep sleep in deep space.

The mission was placed into hibernation in June 2011 because it was too far from the sun to permit its solar arrays to provide full power.

It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant spacecraft for the first time in 31 months....

On a flight yesterday from Kirkenes to Tromsø, Norway, I kept my face plastered to the window as we made our approach to the airport. Serrated peaks draped in winter snow soared above the fjords as we descended. And the...

Watch live streaming video from eurospaceagency at livestream.com UPDATE: Rosetta woke up! Read our full story about the acquisition of signal here. For the first time, a spacecraft will follow a comet as it approaches t...

It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant spacecraft for the first time in 31 months.

Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web....

A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition of the stars that make up the Milky Way's disc -- the vast collection of ...

A team of scientists headed by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), has found a way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to a new level of detail. The i...

A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition of the stars that make up the Milky Way's disc - the vast collection of g...

Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing, for the first time, part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Using the 10-meter Keck...

Rosetta will take about seven hours to warm up, operate its navigation gear and fire rocket thrusters to reposition itself.

NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover has accomplished what absolutely no one expected.

Pennsylvania State University is launching a crowdfunding campaign on RocketHub Jan. 20 to raise $400,000 for its effort to send a robotic spacecraft to the Moon.

Chinese space officials have at last released much higher quality versions of the 1st color imagery captured by China's first spacecraft to soft land on the surface of the Earth's Moon; Chang'e-3.