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 ...

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

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another round of Starlink satellites into lower Earth orbit, with a launch set to leave the ...

and deliver satellites to the moon to map its surface and help mission planners scout for Apollo landing sites. But a bigger worry is what eons of meteorite impacts have created: regolith ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be an understatement. Philae separated from an orbiter called Rosetta.

The Rosetta spacecraft, launched in 2004, is now flying with the comet, hovering just six miles over the nucleus to take measurements ... The prize awaiting the successful landing is the opportunity ...

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 ...

"Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history ... said in a statement just after the landing. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Jan. 31, 2015, (main) and ESA graphic of ...

Dan Riskin presents Landing On A Comet Rosetta Mission live from Germany as after 10 years of travelling towards its destination and after looping round the sun five times Rosetta is set to drop ...