When the European Space Agency got word from their comet lander that it had bounced its way into a dark corner of the comet, they knew it meant a race against the clock. Timing is an issue now ...

Visual contact has been made with a robot that landed on the comet “Chury” in 2014, just weeks before the scientific mission enters its final stage. Sightings confirmed that the Philae lander ...

ChaSTE probe on Chandrayaan-3 successfully measures moon's temperature, surpassing previous missions' struggles with thermal ...

Annotated version of the Philae’s mission at comet 67P animation. The animation begins with the deployment of Philae from Rosetta at comet 67P/Tschurjumow-Gerassimenko in November 2014. It will take ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

As soon as it moves out of the shadow and the first solar rays reach the research probe’s chargers, Philae will start to work again Ukraine’s intelligence services sent fake letters to 42 ...

The Sky at Night—Rosetta: A Sky at Night Special An in-depth look at the attempt to land the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft on a comet.