Europe's comet chaser gets final commands to end its mission

Friday, September 30, 2016 - 03:31 in Astronomy & Space

Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta has received its last commands putting it on course to crash-land on the icy surface of the alien world it's been following for more than a decade.

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