Spacecraft successfully lands on comet
The Philae lander has successfully touched down on a comet.
The historic event marks the first time a spacecraft has executed a controlled landing on a comet. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft released the Philae landing capsule early Wednesday morning, and it has landed on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.
The landing is part of a 10-year ESA project, during which the Rosetta orbited and studied the space rock. The ESA offered a livestream of the historic event on Wednesday.
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