The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...

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 mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

The landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko required immense ... But thrusters that were meant to push the lander, called Philae, onto the surface, and harpoons that would have anchored it ...

That shady area has cut down the probe's potential for power, and severely limited the amount of work it can get done on the comet. It's unclear how long Philae will last under the shadowy ...

The European Space Agency landed the probe Philae on comet 67P Until this decade, not a great deal was known for certain about what comets are made of. The European Space Agency’s groundbreaking ...

when Philae lands, at around 16:00 GMT (11:00 am EST). These events will actually take place about 27 minutes before we hear about them on Earth because comet 67P/Churyumox-Gerasimenko is roughly ...

Sixteen different organic molecules were discovered by scientists working on the Rosetta experiment – a project that landed a probe on comet 67P in 2014. These molecules would have been vital ...