The European Space Agency's comet lander, Philae, has awoken and contacted Earth for the first time since November.

Philae successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November, but ran out of battery power after just 60 hours.

However now it seems that enough sunlight has landed on Philae for it to wake up, and on Saturday it contacted Earth for 85 seconds. A Twitter account linked to the probe sent out this message.



Hello Earth! Can you hear me? #WakeUpPhilae — Philae Lander (@Philae2014) June 14, 2015

Philae is supposed to be analysing the composition of the comet, and determining whether comets could be the source of life on Earth.

Last week NASA found impact glass on Mars which could be preserving ancient life on the planet.

Matt Porter is a freelance writer based in London. Make sure to visit what he thinks is the best website in the world, but is actually just his Twitter page.