The European Space Agency has found its missing Philae comet lander

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has finally found its Philae lander, nearly two years after the vehicle became the first ever to land on a comet. The mission team has struggled to locate the lander since that historic touchdown, and communications with Philae have been sparse to non-existent. But less than a month before the Rosetta mission was set to end, the Rosetta spacecraft — which is in orbit around the comet Philae landed on — has at long last imaged the