30/09/2016 Newsround

Morning everyone, Leah with today's Newsround.

First, in a few hours' time, one of the most ground-breaking,

epic space missions of our time, will reach its grand finale.

After launching in 2004, it took Rosetta ten years to catch

After such a long journey, you'd hope things wouldn't

In 2014, Rosetta tried to attach a special space probe called

But instead, it bounced a few times and got stuck

Bad news for a space probe that's powered by sunlight.

With no sunlight, Philae's batteries ran out after just three days.

In 2015, Philae woke up from hibernation as the comet it's

on got nearer to the sun and sent back lots of information to Earth.

And in 2016, the location of Philae was discovered.

It was wedged in a dark crack on the comet.

While all this has been happening, the Rosetta spacecraft was orbiting

around the comet but now its journey is coming to an end with a bang.

Rosetta will join Philae by crashing into the surface of the comet,

sending lots more info back to Earth in the process,

Well, Rosetta's had quite a journey and joining me now to talk

about it is space expert, Dr Sarah Crowther.

What has Rosetta taught us about comets? Festival, this is the first

mission to orbit the comet and the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

Rosetta has been studying the comet for a couple of years, it has taken

loads of photos, it has looked at the dust and gas coming of the comet

and it has changed our understanding. Why has it come to

the end now? , it has a strange orbit, the earth goes around the sun

in a circle but comets can go very close all very far from the sun.

This comet has come close to the Sun and it is now moving away. As the

spacecraft is powered by the sun, there is not enough energy to keep

it going. So what next, will it be able to investigate other comet or

that is it? It is crashing into the surface of this comet was so later

this morning it will crash into the surface, it will take really close

up pictures as it gets close but once it crashes, that's the end.

Goodbye, Rosetta! Thank you, we will talk to you later about this.

To stars of a different kind now, Manchester United were in action

in the Europa League last night but their display

They were up against Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk

and despite dominating possession United fans had to wait

until the 69th minute for the only goal of the game.

Wayne Rooney, who had only just come on as a substitute, miscued his

effort but Zlatan Ibrahimovic was in the right place to save

So we had to play, I don't say amazingly well, because we didn't,

Some exciting news for One Direction fans.

Niall Horan's dropped his first solo single.

# I want to tell you everything, words I never got to sing... .

The singer's announced he's signed a record deal and told fans he's

looking forward to the next part of his journey.

And finally, it's Friday so here's 23 panda cubs for you.

They're being shown off at a Panda breeding centre in China.

They're aged between about one and four months old with some able

That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.