We know that there are eight planets in our Solar System, but did you know that astronomers have…
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered… is there another world out there like…
Before there were worlds, oceans, or even solid ground, there was something far less impressive: a cloud. A…
Have you ever gone hunting… for planets? It might sound strange, but astronomers are doing exactly that! For…
The Solar System contains eight planets orbiting our local star, the Sun. But did you know that there…
There are several hundred comets that spend most of their lives among the planets of the inner Solar…
Space is huge. It is so immense that is very difficult to imagine the distances involved, even between…
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Ancient people were afraid of comets – they were said to bring bad luck or foretell disaster. We…
The Solar System is full of material left over from the formation of the planets. Small chunks of…
Nearly all stars belong to gigantic groups known as galaxies. The Sun is one of at least 100…
Like people, stars are born, they grow old and they die. Their birth places are huge, cold clouds…
The Universe is everything we can touch, feel, sense, measure or detect. It includes living things, planets, stars,…
In 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon, taking a giant…
The space probe Cassini has finished its mission investigating Saturn and its moons! The robot explorer dived into…
After spending nearly 13 years orbiting the planet Saturn, the Cassini–Huygens mission will soon be over! The spacecraft…
Living on Earth, we never have to wait very long before seeing sunlight. Every 24 hours our planet…
European Space Agency space probes have visited many worlds in our Solar System, but so far none have…
Have you ever seen a fruit or object falling from a tree? And have you ever tried to…
Have you ever seen the aurora? A beautiful curtain of rippling light in the night sky, it is…
Space can be a dark and lonely place, which is why Rosetta is travelling with a friend! When…
After travelling for 10 long years, covering over half the length of the Solar System and looping around…
It was a fairy-tale ending to an important chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission as…
ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana,…
Rosetta, ESA’s comet-chasing mission, will wake up from a deep-space hibernation at 10:00 GMT on 20 January! Launched…
Thanks to this stunning colour movie from ESA’s Mars Express, you can see what it would be like…
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has just celebrated ten years in space, but Europe is already getting ready for…
On 13 March 1986, ESA’s Giotto spacecraft sent back pictures of a black, potato-shaped object that was blasting…
