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Rosetta mission celebrates as Philae probe lands safely on Comet 67P

Dave Neal

13 November 2014 •

European Space Agency ready to retrieve data from 'one of the oldest remnants of our solar system'

A mission to land a probe on a comet millions of miles from Earth has ended with a successful soft landing. The Philae probe landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 6:03 GMT some 10 years a...

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