I recall it as clearly as if it were yesterday. I was standing on a small island in the middle of a huge and absolutely still lake. The sunrise over the desert and the silence add to the beauty of the ...

Now more than 24 hours past its separation from the Rosetta spacecraft, the Philae lander finds itself in an interesting position on the surface of Comet 67P/Churuymov-Gerasimenko. According to ...

When the Philae spacecraft landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Wednesday, the anchors needed to hold it down in the feeble gravity failed to fire and the lander bounced back into space, soaring ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the European Space Agency made history by becoming the first to successfully ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Rosetta’s Philae lander has woken up on the surface of the comet after seven months of hibernation. The European Space Agency has been trying to contact the lander as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...