Rosetta ends mission with comet crash-landing

The Rosetta spacecraft has ended its 12 year journey into deep space, with a controlled crash landing on an icy comet -- 700 million kilometres away from Earth. Photo: Artist's impression of Rosetta and Philae at the comet. (ESA)

It's mission was to help answer one of the most fundamental questions in science - the origins of our solar system and how life was created.