A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

1. The comet approaches the sun. 2. Water molecules sublimate from the comet as it thaws. 3. The water molecules are ionized by ultraviolet light from the sun. 4. Newborn ions are accelerated by ...

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 ...

Despite the many challenges, Philae impressed as it sent fascinating data and images from the comet's surface. The 'potato' turns out to be a 'rubber duck' But let's recap: The European Space Agency's ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

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

Oxygen discovered on Rosetta comet, stunning scientists ...

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

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

Also included is the strength of and variation in the external field, namely the influence of the solar wind interplanetary magnetic field near the comet nucleus. At distances of 10 m or greater ...

The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until ...