On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...

The mission managed several historic firsts, such as getting a spacecraft into orbit around a comet and the unprecedented landing of a probe on the surface. A handful of previous spacecraft had ...

An uncle from North Herts has expressed his shock at finding an ad for an adult porn site on the packaging of a doll he had bought for his niece ...

A retired civil servant suffered fatal head injuries when she was blown over by a search and rescue helicopter landing at a hospital, an inquest jury has heard. Jean Langan, 87, had attended Derriford ...

Children in Hertfordshire will have the chance to meet Father Christmas this festive season, as Santa's Story Time comes to John Lewis. The Welwyn Garden City department store will host the events ...

The death of a retired civil servant who suffered fatal head injuries when she was blown over by a search and rescue helicopter landing at a hospital was an accident, a jury has found. Jean Langan, 87 ...

A robotic probe bearing a laboratory has been launched by the European Space Agency, with the hopes of landing on a comet.

Discover the secrets and stories of Apollo 11. documentDiscover the secrets and stories of Apollo 11 Discover just how close the first Moon landing came to complete disaster with this timeline of ...