Rosetta has re-ignited the global fascination with space. The excitement that surrounded the first human spaceflight helped spark the career of Svetlana Gerasimenko, one of the joint discoverers of Rosetta’s target comet

A historic collaboration between the space and energy sectors could lead to new products and services to help deliver sustainable power across our planet

Can the space industry, borne out of 20th-century military rocket technology, transform itself into a sustainable, non-polluting exemplar of the 21st-century green economy?

Could the red planet one day be transformed into a world able to support human habitation?

The Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is giving us unprecedented insight into the makeup and history of a comet and, in so doing, may unlock the secret of life in the solar system