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 ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas (C/2023 A3 ... In a world's first, SpaceX's Super Heavy executed what appeared to be a bull's-eye landing, hovering near the Mechazilla launch tower as the tower captured ...

The Rosetta-Philae mission aimed to explore comet 67P in detail, but unexpected challenges changed the course of its success. From the initial landing issues to other technical troubles, explore what ...

During the lander's descent, scientists were limited to watch because the 500m kilometers distance from Earth made it impossible to send instructions in real time. A European spacecraft made ...

From gift cards to classroom assistance, learn how you can make a difference in your child's teacher's life and show your ...

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 group of Kamloops residents are trying to oust a Kamloops city councillor from office over a multi-million dollar arena ...

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