Defunct Philae found on the surface of the comet
As Rosetta's mission draws close to an end, its high-resolution camera snapped a few photos of the Philae lander.
Tag: Philae
What comet dust looks like, courtesy of ESA’s Rosetta mission
Researchers have documented a more familiar curiosity: what dust particles on a comet look like.
We have new data from the Philae lander – it identifies several new organic molecules on Comet 67P, charts internal structure
Two different Philae instruments, known as Ptolemy and COSAC (Cometary Sampling and Composition), hunted for organic compounds— the building blocks ...
Life on comets? Not so fast, astronomers say!
Yesterday, we presented an article in which we detailed the claims of two astronomers, Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology ...
Philae could be sitting on a comet filled with alien life and not even know it
Comet lander Philae may be sitting on top of microbial life and not even know it - even worse, it ...
Rosetta spacecraft finds huge sinkholes on comet’s surface
Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module, ...
Rosetta to continue its mission and land on a comet
The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Rosetta mission will continue until at least September 2016, when it will ...
Organic molecules found on comet
As we were telling you already in several articles, the Rosetta probe is in orbit of a comet - the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...
Rosetta’s Philae probe landed on a comet – why this is HUGE news
OK, so we've been keeping you up to date with what's been happening with the Rosetta mission, but we had ...
Rosetta comet landing – watch it as it happens! [live blog]
In case you're not aware, the European Space Agency is just now trying to send Rosetta's lander, Philae, towards the comet ...