Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November of 2014. But when its landing harpoons failed to ...

Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander drifting across the surface of Comet 67P for half an hour until its first bounce landing. The European Space Agency captured the “song” of the ...

The Earth reflects 31 percent of the light, the moon 12 percent and Comet 67P about 6 percent. The images are not to scale physically. The image of Earth was taken by the OSIRIS camera on Rosetta ...

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rosetta's arrival at Comet 67P — the first comet that a spacecraft orbited and landed on — scientists who were involved with the mission recalled what it ...