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

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

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

ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...

A look at a comet, Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas ... if you think back to 2005, there was a program called Rosetta at Home, which was a volunteer computing project that linked up thousands of people’s ...

Hera is roughly the size of a small car and, when fully fueled, weighs around 1150 kilograms – which is rather light compared to the three-tonne comet hunter Rosetta. Alongside telescopes, space ...

is not always pretty—and never was this more evident than when the Rosetta spacecraft sent its Philae lander down to the surface of Comet 67P in 2016. The comet—a thing of light and loveliness ...

Comet discovered to have its own northern lights Comet discovered to have its own northern lights Data from NASA instruments aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta mission have helped reveal ...

Dr. Giri was also a scientific crew member of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. He is a recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the 2014 ...

(4th Jul 1954) 75th Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner ... (18th Jul 1934) 225th The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain ...