DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) – The European Space Agency celebrated a cosmic touchdown Wednesday by successfully landing a spacecraft on a comet for the first time in history. The agency said it has ...

Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein made a singular discovery while searching through images from the Dark Energy Survey. They came upon a comet, now called C/2014 UN271, that turned ...

A comet unlike any other in recorded history is on a trajectory to zip through the inner solar system in less than a decade, but like most space rocks that make the news, it isn't anything to lose ...

The European Space Agency released a new photo Thursday of the Philae lander safely resting in its new home on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as it hurtles through space. The agency's ...

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about ...