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 ...

The Rosetta–Philae mission made history by sending a lander to a comet for the first time, but the touchdown didn’t unfold as ...

After intercepting the speeding comet, a wealth of findings. The photo recently released by ESA and taken by OSIRIS wide-angle camera on the Rosetta space probe, Nov. 22, 2014. ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/AP ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team, File The European Space Agency says it has succeeded in landing a spacecraft on a comet for the first time in history.

Scientists who built the instruments aboard the Rosetta spacecraft say its successful deployment of the lander named Philae will make their findings that much more valuable. Fabrizio Capaccioni, whose ...

Even as we scrunch closer to our laptops in anticipation of Juno's arrival at Jupiter tomorrow, another mission will soon be concluding. After two years in close company with a dusty comet, the ...

BERLIN/PARIS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A team of scientists identified on Monday the point on the surface of a comet, known as "Site J," where they aim to land a probe in what would be a historic ...

Exactly 15 months after it completed a seemingly impossible journey to land on the surface of a comet, the Philae lander now faces "eternal hibernation," as officials at the European Space Agency say ...

BERLIN (AP) - A shadow was cast - literally - across Europe's historic mission to land on and explore a comet. Scientists said Thursday the landing craft not only bounced twice, it also came to rest ...

NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar ...

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 ...