Ten years ago, on 12 November 2014, the Philae lander made the first-ever landing on a comet in the history of space exploration ... but the time was used to learn as much as possible about the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

That comet? 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ... its orbit and begun preparations to deploy its tiny lander inside, named Philae. While the images Rosetta took 38 miles from the comet were pretty ...

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 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 ...

Just a few hours after the spacecraft arrived, scientists celebrated the first close-up photos of the comet radioed home by Rosetta and its lander ... detailed images showed Comet 67P to be ...

Cross-section of comet 67P showing the 3D model of the layered structure compressed and folded by the collision of the lobes (arrows indicate the direction of compression). Disclaimer ...