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Check out the first panorama photo taken on comet. — -- It's an image billions of years in the making. One day after the Philae lander made a historic touch down on a speeding comet, the first ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Europe’s Philae spacecraft did not have much time to do its work after surviving a bounce landing on the surface of a comet, but information it collected is reshaping ...

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

In new images taken by the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, scientists spotted a fissure at the comet's neck, signifying that the comet could break up as it gets closer to ...