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

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, soaring ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission launched March 2, 2004, on a 4-billion-mile (6.4 billion kilometers) path to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter ...

The European Space Agency's Philae comet lander, out of power and presumably lost after bouncing into heavily shadowed terrain last November, phoned home Saturday after finally getting enough sunlight ...

Less than two days after its historic landing, Rosetta's probe may be reaching its final hours, and the scientific team is racing to collect as much data as possible before Philae's batteries run out.

Being lost in space is usually a permanent condition. That is, unless you're the European Space Agency's Philae lander, a critical component of the comet-chasing Rosetta mission. Philae has been ...

The Philae probe is alive and well a day after the first successful spacecraft landing on a comet, but scientists are still trying to figure out exactly where it is on its new home. Officials at the ...

ESA’s Philae comet lander has once again gone silent. According to the space agency, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on a comet lost radio contact with the Rosetta orbiter mothership on ...

Philae had a bumpy landing on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet last November, but that didn't stop it from relaying some important data back to Earth. Papers published in the journal Science reveal ...

In November, a spacecraft made a dramatic, first-ever landing on a comet---three times. After the Philae lander touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the harpoons that were supposed to ...

Fifty-six hours after landing on the surface of a comet, Philae sent one more round of data about its new home across 310 million miles of space. Then, its power went out. "@Rosetta, I'm feeling a bit ...