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

The unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram lander Philae, shown in this artist's conception, at 0835 GMT (3:35 ET) on Nov. 12. (J. Huart/ESA; ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD ...

Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting ... such as getting a spacecraft into orbit around a comet and the unprecedented landing of a probe on the surface.

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 ...

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

The landing sequence, meticulously planned in advance by teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), the French ... Philae separated from Rosetta at a speed of approximately 18 centimetres ...

The landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko required ... countdown that began when Philae dropped from the agency's Rosetta space probe as both it and the comet hurtled through space at 66,000 ...

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

Rosetta, the first comet orbiter, shares final moments before crashing The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday after two years of orbit around Comet ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander ... DLR played a major role in the construction of the lander and operated the Lander Control Center (LCC), from where the difficult ...