We have sound! The stream of data from Philae, the Rosetta mission’s little lander currently hibernating on comet 67, now includes the very “thump” it made while touching down. The two-second ...

In a surprising twist to our understanding of comets, mysterious radio signals have been detected emanating from comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. These signals, recorded at frequencies between 40 and ...

The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

When the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft discovered abundant molecular oxygen bursting from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) in 2015, it puzzled scientists. They had never seen a comet ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander.Philae is a spacecraft about the ...

The European Space Agency has announced that Philae has detected organic molecules on comet 67P – and there are many more scientific discoveries to come Landing on a comet was never going be easy.

The Rosetta orbiter spectrometer for ion and neutral analysis (ROSINA) instrument orbited comet 67P to revolutionize our understanding of cometary material composition. A key finding of the satellite ...

Researchers have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth's oceans. Contradicting some recent results, this finding reopens the case ...

This picture, taken by the camera on-board Rosetta, shows the boulder-strewn neck region of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A recording of bizarre sounds being emitted from the comet where the ...