Sail to the island temple of Philae, the last stronghold of the ancient Egyptian religion. Discover the beautiful sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis, where the very last hieroglyph was ever ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from Earth, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's lander Philae made space exploration ...

The Philae lander communicated with the Rosetta orbiter again between 19:45 and 20:07 CEST on 9 July 2015 and transmitted measurement data from the COmet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave ...

Researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti -- and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti -- as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of the Temple of Isis in Philae, Egypt.

One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander Meanwhile they are also looking ahead to next year’s grand finale: making a ...

Baptized "the pearl of the Nile", this sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis is the masterful work of the last pharaohs of Egypt and the Roman emperors who succeeded them. Sacred land, Philae has ...

"At the turn of the twentieth century, the second and third stages of the construction of the Aswan Dam progressively submerged the temples of Philae for the greater part of the year. All that could ...