When the Philae spacecraft landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Wednesday, the anchors needed to hold it down in the feeble gravity failed to fire and the lander bounced back into space ...

After an improbable 10-year, 310-million-mile journey to become the first ever space vehicle to make a soft landing on a comet, the Philae probe may have ended its mission prematurely. Its ...

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

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Rosetta arrived at the comet on 6 August 2014, and the race was immediately on to find a suitable landing site for its lander Philae. The site needed to offer a balance of safety and unique ...

The Philae landing craft that is due to touch down on the surface of a comet hurtling towards the Sun will snap some images of the mother ship Rosetta after it breaks its bonds and embarks on its ...

Updated @ 11:03am: The ESA has released Philae's first panorama from the surface of comet 67P. Sadly, the image isn't all that exciting, but a) it seems to prove that Philae is solidly on the ...

In its first press briefing since the touchdown of the Philae lander on comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA scientists announced they weren't entirely sure what happened after what appeared to be ...

The Philae lander made history in November 2014 when it became the first spacecraft ever to touch down on a comet and take pictures of what it saw. Then it vanished. Although Philae was able to ...

The comet probe Philae may have bounced when it landed, the European Space Agency said Wednesday. It is the first time a soft landing has been achieved on a comet – but there was a hitch.

"We are on the comet," Stephan Ulamec, Philae Lander Manager, announced Wednesday, marking a historic achievement. The news came after the European Space Agency endured tense hours of uncertainty ...