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 ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on ...

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.

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. It was ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...