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

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

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

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 ...

Rosetta spacecraft, carrying the Philae lander, was launched over 20 years ago on 2 March 2004 aboard an Ariane 5G+ rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It travelled for ten years, ...

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

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 ...

Rosetta spent two years at Comet 67P, taking thousands of photos Interceptor ... That's insufficient time to plan, build and launch a spacecraft. You need to be out there already, waiting for ...

Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old solar system relic. The principal goals of the mission were to study ...

The particular people involved were from the European Space Agency. The probe is known as the Philae lander and we gave the comet the lovely name 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It turns out ...