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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting ... such as getting a spacecraft into orbit around a comet and the unprecedented landing of a probe on the surface.

Rosetta, the first comet orbiter, shares final moments before crashing The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic, 12-year cruise through the cosmos on Friday after two years of orbit around Comet ...

The landing sequence, meticulously planned in advance by teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), the French ... Philae separated from Rosetta at a speed of approximately 18 centimetres ...

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

On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency (ESA ... “sensing the environment around the comet, taking stunning imagery as the first landing site ...