Humanity's adventure with the comet lander Philae has ended. Earlier this week, the European Space Agency switched off radio communications with the plucky spacecraft, whose landing on the comet ...

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 ...

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing ...

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 ...

DARMSTADT, Germany -- Europe's comet lander Philae has come to rest in the shadow of a cliff, posing a potential problem for its solar panels, scientists said Thursday as they published the first ...

The beauty of photography is that we get to relive the ‘firsts’ and important images of an event that will alter and change our history over and over. The photographs captured by Philae, the lander of ...

BERLIN, Germany -- The European Space Agency says it is switching off its radio link to the probe that landed on a comet, after receiving no signal from the lander for a year. The agency says the ...

Scientists have established contact with the lander, but they're not sure where on the comet it is. The lander apparently bounced after touching... After Bouncy Landing, Philae Lander At Rest On Comet ...

This composite image provided by the European Space Agency ESA Oct. 15, 2015, shows parts of the spacecraft Rosetta in front of the comet 67P/Churyumov-?Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from ...