The Philae lander touched-down 3 times before settling on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12th, 2014. According to the lander’s data, it soared and tumbled for 2 hours after first contact.
The Philae Lander’s bouncy comet landing is reconstructed here in a new animation.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
