“The Philae lander has two imaging instruments, a set of six cameras called ÇIVA that take surface panoramas, and another camera called ROLIS, which took the pictures of the comet during the ...

The animation begins with the deployment of Philae from Rosetta at comet 67P/Tschurjumow-Gerassimenko in November 2014. It will take several hours for it to reach the surface. Because of the comet’s ...

When the European Space Agency got word from their comet lander that it had bounced its way into a dark corner of the comet, they knew it meant a race against the clock. Timing is an issue now ...

ESA's Rosetta and Philae spacecraft embarked on a historic journey to Comet 67P, revealing secrets that reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. From stunning images to groundbreaking discoveries ...

To get ready for dispatching Philae tomorrow, Nov. 12, Rosetta has taken a complex orbital path around the comet that has brought it amazingly close to the comet's surface - less than 7 miles above.

But thrusters that were meant to push the lander, called Philae, onto the surface, and harpoons that would have anchored it to the comet failed to deploy properly. Initial data from the spacecraft ...

The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until ...

The Philae Comet Lander carries an imaging payload designed to take panoramic pictures of the surface of the comet, along with a spectrometer to study the composition, texture and reflectivity of ...

Wednesday, Nov. 12 will either be history-making or heart-breaking. That day will be the culmination of a ten-year project that has already taught us much about our solar system. Ten years ago ...

The Philae lander was developed and built by an international ... used to determine the chemical composition of the comet core surface and the coma as well as to determine the surface temperature.