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 ...

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DARMSTADT, Germany -- Europe's comet lander Philae has come to rest in the shadow of a cliff, posing a potential problem for its solar panels, scientists said Thursday as they published the first ...

On November 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) made space history when it landed a probe on a comet. The news swept the Internet by storm (even holding our attention over Kim Kardashian’s ...

Five potential sites have been selected for what will be one of humanity's most audacious undertakings - landing a spacecraft on a comet. Scientists will command the Rosetta spacecraft to 'drop' the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...