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

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 ...

Just a few hours after the spacecraft arrived, scientists celebrated the first close-up photos of the comet radioed home by ...

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

However, when Philae went silent late last year, scientists anticipated that as the comet approached the sun, the lander might gain new life as the sunlight striking the comet grew stronger.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...