After several hours of silence while the Rosetta orbiter was circling Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and out of signal reach of its lander, named Philae, the two finally made contact. Scientists were ...

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 began with a decade-long journey to Comet 67P, which is currently orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. The Philae landing robot detached from Rosetta on ...

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 ...

Scientists with the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission may have had a scare when the Philae lander bounced off of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but the bumpy touchdown actually ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Perched on the surface of a comet, the revived Philae lander should soon be able to resume — and ...