The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae lander had been lost for almost two years. Finally, the search had ended after images from the mothership, Rosetta, revealed its resting place. Philae lander’s grave is on none other than Comet 67P.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has successful tested a technology that would capture gravitational waves in space. Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Pathfinder mission conducted a near-perfect free fall experiment which scientists hope would enable them to detect and study hidden cosmic entities and celestial events in the future.
Beset by multiple problems and other setbacks, the joint Europe-Russian ExoMars project would have to postpone the launching of its second mission to Mars from 2018 to 2020. ExoMars is an overt mission to find signs life in the red planet.
Three astronauts have been shipped off to International Space Station joining the existing team of British Tim Peake, NASA’s Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko from Russia.
ESA announced extension by nine months that will help Rosetta study the comet as it moves away from the Sun.
After traveling through the dark and cold of deep space for ten years and 4 billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has arrived at its destination, the comet 67P.
