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 ...

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

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

Following a decade-long journey, Rosetta arrived at its target in August 2014. Just a few hours after the spacecraft arrived, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, ...

For some, it feels like just yesterday; for others, it's like an entire era of comet research. Ten years ago, on 12 November 2014, the Philae lander made the first-ever landing on a comet in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A family looks in awe as the Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, the ... [+] brightest comet of the ...

There’s a chance a “Halloween” comet will become visible tonight, with also a possibility of seeing it during the daytime if it doesn’t break apart while approaching the sun, according to ...