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 ...

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

The teams involved had to adapt rapidly to unforeseen circumstances and devise new scenarios on the fly. Despite the many challenges, Philae impressed as it sent fascinating data and images from the ...

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

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 latest instrument Philae is using is a type of hammering device, shown below, that will penetrate the comet's surface and extract samples to analyze the comet's chemical make up. Despite ...

Last November, the European Space Agency made history by landing the first probe, called Philae, onto a comet. But the landing didn't go as planned and Philae, instead of landing in the sunny spot ...

To get ready for dispatching Philae tomorrow, Nov. 12, Rosetta has taken a complex orbital path around the comet that has brought it amazingly close to the comet's surface - less than 7 miles above.

The Philae module will have 4-6 months of operation in the comet surface. Rosetta’s prime objective is to help understand the origin and evolution of the Solar System. The comet’s composition ...

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 ...

But thrusters that were meant to push the lander, called Philae, onto the surface, and harpoons that would have anchored it to the comet failed to deploy properly. Initial data from the spacecraft ...