Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The images were taken on 2 ...

Silent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko from which it is unlikely to recover. Rosetta, which ...

The animated image below provides strong evidence that Philae touched down for the first time almost precisely where intended. The animation comprises images recorded by Rosetta's navigation camera as ...

The camera on the Rosetta spacecraft spotted exactly where the Philae lander is on comet 67P. Philae landed on the comet Nov. 12, 2014, but he didn't end up exactly where he was supposed to be.

Sadly, even space agencies with budgets of tens of billions of dollars are not immune to the pathetically lacking longevity of batteries. The Philae lander, which made history by landing on comet ...

Just over two years ago, the Rosetta space probe successfully entered orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (hereafter abbreviated as 67P). Rosetta's mission has been a tremendous success -- it ...

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 ...

LONDON (CNN) — The Rosetta mission to land a probe on Comet 67P is past the point of no return, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. “There is no going back now,” the agency said ...

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says its Philae lander has made contact again after a five-day gap as mission controllers work to improve communications with the washing machine-sized ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with space probe Philae, which successfully landed on a comet in a pinpoint operation only to lose power because its ...

Catching up to a speeding comet is no easy feat, but the Rosetta spacecraft's Philae lander is closing in this morning on a historic landing. Rosetta already has gone where no other spacecraft has ...

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 ...