Philae lander phones home from comet hurtling through space
After seven months of silence, a robot riding a comet hurtling through space has woken up and phoned home.
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In Pictures: How to land on a comet
The European Space Agency successfully landed its Rosetta system on a hurtling comet
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In Pictures: Mars gets close encounter with a comet
The Red Planet will entertain an uninvited guest this weekend in the form a comet moving at 200,000 km/h through its space in the universe. NASA, ESA will point the Mars spacecraft at streaking Sliding Spring comet.
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After 10 years, and billions of miles, Rosetta catches its comet
After a decade of traveling at about 34 thousand miles an hour through deep space , the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has become the first craft to rendezvous with a comet.
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NASA to show images of Comet ISON's approach to sun
As Americans put turkeys in the oven on Thanksgiving, the Comet ISON will make its closest approach to the sun, skimming just 730,000 miles above its surface.