The Rosetta-Philae mission was groundbreaking, but Philae’s landing on comet 67P didn’t go as planned. Why did the lander fail to anchor? How did it end up in the wrong location?

Philae landed in November 2014, but lost contact with the orbiting Rosetta probe that dropped it on the comet. “It was very important to find Philae before the mission ended, to understand the ...

The Rosetta-Philae spacecraft successfully touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, uncovering remarkable findings during its mission. Yet, there were setbacks as Philae's tenure on the ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander. The probes were launched on 2 March 2004, travelled 6.4 billion kilometres in 10 years and, with the help of a few planet swing-bys, ...

The scientists are hoping for a couple of major discoveries from Philae's analysis. "The really big result will be if Rosetta's landing probe... detects 'chiral amino acids'," John Plane ...