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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everything is going according to plan. The lander Philae is now flying to the comet, en route for touchdown. Soon we will have images of Rosetta floating in space and Philae on its way to the comet ...

In the climax of a decade-long mission, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday is scheduled to land a small probe on the surface of a comet - something that has never been ...

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has confirmed the time and place it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet. The agency said Wednesday its unmanned probe Rosetta will release the ...

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 ...

Artist's impression of Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016. ESA/ATG medialab/Handout via REUTERS The Rosetta spacecraft ended its historic ...

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 ...