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 ...

The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November, 2014, after a decade spent travelling nearly 4 billion miles through space. Having left Earth in 2004 ...

The paper, by H.-U. Auster at Technische Universität Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'The nonmagnetic nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.' ...

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 ...

12. The aim is to drop its lander Philae at a location dubbed `Site J' on the 4-kilometre wide comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The maneuver will take about seven hours. But because the radio ...

Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

That comet? 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It finally accomplished that goal in August - when Rosetta rendezvoused with the comet and began orbiting around it. But it's not done yet. Tomorrow ...

After months of orbiting its target, the Rosetta spacecraft is finally ready to fulfill its mission: landing a probe on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The Philae research module has separated from the Rosetta space probe and started flight to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany ...