Frank Jordans

Ground controller will try to adjust the Philae lander to make sure its solar panels can catch the sun and charge its batteries.

Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — an audacious cosmic first designed to answer big questions about the origin of the universe.

Ground controller will try to adjust the Philae lander to make sure its solar panels can catch the sun and charge its batteries.

Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — an audacious cosmic first designed to answer big questions about the origin of the universe.