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What comes next for the European mission that landed a craft on a comet?

UK researchers obtain "rich" data from the Philae lander just before its power died.

The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed.

Australia cricketer Phillip Hughes dies in hospital, two days after being hit on the neck by a ball during a match in Sydney.

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European Space Agency controllers will continue to listen for Philae in the days ahead, hopeful that the comet lander will somehow become active again.

Images of the Philae probe moments after its initial touchdown on Comet 67P are published by the European Space Agency.

High-resolution pictures have now been released of the Philae probe around the time of landing on Comet 67P last Wednesday.

Answer (1 of 3): It would be impossible with any current technology. Laser beams spread. Over distances of millions of miles, the laser beam would spread to the point of irrelevance unless we fired a ridiculously large number of them. And, we would have to have line of sight to the space craft,...

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A hardline cleric in Pakistan is teaching the ideas of Osama Bin Laden in religious schools for about 5,000 children.

US commandos disagree in public over who fired the shot that killed Osama Bin Laden, more than three years after the al-Qaeda leader's death.

After a historic but awkward comet landing, the robot probe Philae is now stable and sending pictures - but faces concerns about its battery life.

The Philae comet lander finally loses power and drops into standby mode, but is able to send back a crucial batch of scientific data just in time.

The Philae lander has attempted to drill into the surface of Comet 67P, amid fears that its battery may die in hours.

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US researchers measure the amount of plastic accumulating in a region of the Atlantic Ocean over a 22-year period.

Fresh information is being obtained on the Philae obelisk, the stone monument that played such a key role in helping to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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The Philae robot, soon to attempt a landing on Comet 67P, takes another dramatic image of the icy object.