Touchdown: The European Space Agency successfully landed its Philae robotic probe on a comet 310-million miles from earth. It’s an historic first landing of a man-made craft on a comet. It wasn’t all smooth. The lander hit hard and bounced …

Nation: Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill 29-year-old woman who moved to Oregon to be legally able to end her life, died Saturday. Her announcement that she would kill herself to end her suffering Nov. 1, just two days after her …

Spaceship Down: Hopes for space tourism within the next year were dashed yesterday with the crash into the Mojave Desert of SpaceShipTwo, a craft designed to take high-paying customers into sub-orbital space. One pilot was killed and the other seriously …