The Tale of Rosetta and Philae and their adventures at Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko's got a big week in store. On Wednesday November 12 at 10:02 a.m. (CST), it welcomes its ...

The animated image below provides strong evidence that Philae touched down for the first time almost precisely where intended. The animation comprises images recorded by Rosetta's navigation camera as ...

Sadly, even space agencies with budgets of tens of billions of dollars are not immune to the pathetically lacking longevity of batteries. The Philae lander, which made history by landing on comet ...

LONDON (CNN) — The Rosetta mission to land a probe on Comet 67P is past the point of no return, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. “There is no going back now,” the agency said ...

The European Space Agency's Philae, which made history yesterday by landing on a 2-mile-wide comet some 300 million miles away, has sent back its first photo from the surface of comet ...

Rosetta’s lander Philae will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. But how will it do this, when the kind of surface it will land on is unknown? With the surface composition and ...

Check out the first panorama photo taken on comet. — -- It's an image billions of years in the making. One day after the Philae lander made a historic touch down on a speeding comet, the first ...

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by ...

Catching up to a speeding comet is no easy feat, but the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander is closing in this morning on a historic landing. Rosetta already has gone where no other spacecraft has ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with space probe Philae, which successfully landed on a comet in a pinpoint operation only to lose power because its ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Europe’s Philae spacecraft did not have much time to do its work after surviving a bounce landing on the surface of a comet, but information it collected is reshaping ...