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NASA REVEALS 2 FINALISTS FOR MISSIONS TO DISTANT WORLDS
While that mission had a lander, Philae, it was not a sample-return mission... READ MORE›
LEGENDS OF SPACE, EP 11: ARIANE 1 ON CHRISTMAS EVE, 1979
This new launcher marked a significant milestone in Europe's road to become a true space power, but it nearly didn't happen... READ MORE›
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MASSIVE ICE SHELFT CLOSER TO SPLITTING FROM ANTARCTICA
Larsen C is a portion of the greater Larsen Ice Shelf on the northeastern coast of Antarctica... READ MORE›
CRASHING CHINESE SPACE STATION COULD RAIN FIRE ON EUROPE
The ESA has assumed the leadership role of the test monitoring campaign conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee IADC ... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN SPACECRAFT CASTS OFF ON DESCENT TO COMET
European Space Agency said Wednesday that the landing craft separated from Rosetta probe for descent to comet 67P... READ MORE›
PHILAE COMET LANDER WAKES UP AFTER 7-MONTH HIBERNATION
The comet lander Philae surprised scientists when it suddenly woke up and contacted Earth after a seven-month hibernation the European Space Agency announced Sunday... READ MORE›
PROBE SENDS BACK FIRST IMAGE FROM COMET'S SURFACE
Probe sends back first image from comet's surface European Space Agency says Philae lander still stable despite not latching on to comet... READ MORE›
KEEP CALM, SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE SPOTTED ANOTHER UNIVERSE JUST NEXT TO OURS
The mystery light, spotted by researchers studying images from the European Space Agency's Planck telescope suggests that our universe could be bumping into a neighbouring one... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN-LED MARS LANDER TO START DESCENT TO RED PLANET
Schiaparelli represents only the second European attempt to land a craft on Mars, after a failed mission by the British landing craft Beagle 2 in 2003... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S ROSETTA PROBE LANDS ON COMET AFTER 12 YEARS
The European Space Agency ESA has completed its Rosetta space probe mission with a landing on a comet 720 million km away, according to mission control... READ MORE›
FEDS TELL EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY IT'S UNHAPPY WITH PLAN TO DROP ROCKET IN ARCTIC WATERS
The European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P satellite was launched Friday by a Rokot missile from the Plesetsk launch pad in northwestern Russia... READ MORE›
COMET LANDER PHILAE CONNECTION LOST AFTER DOWNLOAD
10 illustration provided by the European Space Agency shows the Rosetta probe, left, and Philae lander above the 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet... READ MORE›
FRENCH ASTRONAUT PESQUET TO MAKE COUNTRY'S FIRST SPACE MISSION IN EIGHT YEARS
In addition to English, Spanish and German, Thomas Pesquet has also spent many hours learning Russian... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN SPACESHIP DELIVERS THREE ASTRONAUTS TO SPACE STATIONA
Nasa releases video tour of entire International Space Station Play!... READ MORE›
TIM PEAKE NURSING 'WORLD'S WORST HANGOVER' AFTER SIX MONTHS IN SPACE
British astronaut Tim Peake is experiencing the world's worst hangover after spending six months in space... READ MORE›
ALIEN AND UFO HUNTERS BELIEVE ANOMALY IN NASA IMAGE IS A MOTHERSHIP
YouTube user, Streetcap1, posted a NASA image, which he believes, shows an alien mothership... READ MORE›
MARS PROBE 'CRASH SITE IDENTIFIED' BY AMERICAN SATELLITE IMAGES
European Mars lander Schiaparelli has smashed into the Red Planet and exploded, dramatic satellite images suggest... READ MORE›
GRAPHENE SUPERCAPACITORS GET EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK FUNDING
An Estonian startup making energy storage technologies received a 15 million-euro 16 million loan from the European Investment Bank to finance manufacturing and research and development... READ MORE›
'PEOPLE INVESTED ENTIRE LIVES IN THIS'
The scientist said people had invested their entire lives on the European Space Agency mission... READ MORE›
THREE SPACE STATION CREWMEN RETURN SAFELY TO EARTH IN KAZAKHSTAN
23 by cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti, who will fly aboard another Soyuz capsule launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan... READ MORE›
PHILAE SCIENTIST WE LL SEE NEW THINGS
The European Space Agency's senior scientific advisor Prof Mark McCaughrean says Philae will help scientists learn more about comets... READ MORE›
NAVIGATION SYSTEM FAILURE CITED IN CRASH OF EUROPEAN MARS LANDER
We will have learned much from Schiaparelli, David Parker, who oversees space exploration programs for ESA, said in a statement... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY CAPTURES STUNNING IMAGE OF THE CENTRE OF OUR GALAXY
The European Space Agency has released stunning images showing off just how beautiful the centre of our galaxy is... READ MORE›
'HELLO EARTH!' SPACE PROBE, THOUGHT LOST, COMES TO LIFE ON COMET
Scientists hope that samples drilled from the roughly 3-by-5 km comet by Philae will unlock details about how the planets... READ MORE›
ASTRONAUT IN SPACE CONTROLS A ROBOT ON EARTH
The 18-month project was a collaboration between the European Space Agency and students from Delft University of Technology... READ MORE›
EUROPE COMES CLOSER TO ITS OWN GPS
Four Galileo satellites have blasted off aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana... READ MORE›
ESA'S MARS LANDER CRASHED AND DESTROYED ON THE RED PLANET
The disc-shaped 577-kg Schiaparelli probe was sent as part of the programme to search for evidence of life... READ MORE›
ALIEN LIFE ON JUPITER INVESTIGATED AS ESA LAUNCHES WORK ON JUICE SPACECRAFT
The search should take three years with the spacecraft examining the giant planet and its icy moons including Ganymede Europa and Callisto... READ MORE›
HARD CRASH-LANDING MAY HAVE DESTROYED EUROPE'S MARS PROBE
Its resting place was photographed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which also spotted Europe's last ill-fated mission to the surface of the planet... READ MORE›
EUROPE APPROVES DEEP-SPACE 'PLATO' PROJECT TO HUNT FOR ALIEN LIFE
Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host... READ MORE›
FINE FOOD MENUS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
The French Chef Alain Ducasse and his team has been collaborating with the French National Space Agency since 2004 on the Space Food project... READ MORE›
15-YEAR-OLD CAPTURES SATURN USING IPHONE APP AND TELESCOPE IN HIS BACK GARDEN
Marcus Reed took the impressive image using an iPhone app, SkyGuide, and a 102mm diameter reflector telescope... READ MORE›