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Rosetta’s Philae probe has successfully landed on a comet! (updated)

November 12, 2014November 13, 2014

This morning at 16:03 GMT, history was made as the European Space Agency’s Philae probe successfully landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The mission has been unfolding in real time on the ESA’s Flickr stream.

Photographer Spotlight: Mark McCaughrean, Senior Science Advisor at ESA

August 6, 2014August 19, 2014

Today, after more than 10 years, ESA’s comet-chasing space probe “Rosetta” finally meets up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. We spoke with Mark McCaughrean who shares exciting details about Rosetta, his job as an astrophysicist as well as astrophotography with us.