When the Philae spacecraft landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Wednesday, the anchors needed to hold it down in the feeble gravity failed to fire and the lander bounced back into space, soaring ...

The Rosetta–Philae mission made history by sending a lander to a comet for the first time, but the touchdown didn’t unfold as ...

The European Space Agency's Philae comet lander, out of power and presumably lost after bouncing into heavily shadowed terrain last November, phoned home Saturday after finally getting enough sunlight ...

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

Lander has first contact with Earth since November. — -- The Philae comet lander has phoned home for the first time following a seven month hibernation on the comet 67-P, sending valuable data ...

The comet lander Philae surprised scientists when it suddenly woke up and contacted Earth after a seven-month hibernation, the European Space Agency announced Sunday. Scientists had lost contact with ...

In November, a spacecraft made a dramatic, first-ever landing on a comet---three times. After the Philae lander touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the harpoons that were supposed to ...

Only two months ago, scientists at the European Space Agency had given up all hope of finding Philae, a robot probe that they had lost track of after it landed on a comet two years ago. But on Sept. 5 ...