Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early ...

Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...

To do so, the mission's goal was to study an otherwise-unremarkable comet called Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a 2.5-mile-wide (4 kilometers) frozen rock left over from the formation of the solar ...

The Rosetta-Philae mission aimed to explore comet 67P in detail, but unexpected challenges changed the course of its success. From the initial landing issues to other technical troubles, explore what ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

It travelled for ten years, including a 'hibernation phase' from June 2011 to January 2014, before finally reaching its target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in the summer of 2014. Little was known ...

The image shows comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on 2014 Nov 12, 14:41:20 UTC from a distance of approximately 3 km from the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until its first bounce landing. The European Space Agency captured the “song” of the ...