ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is on its way to a rendezvous with a comet in 2014. During its 10-year…
Since beginning operations in 1996, the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has spent its time staring non-stop at the enormous,…
With data recorded on board Mars Express, you can hear Phoenix descend on to the surface of the…
ESA completed a key step in its ongoing support to NASA’s Phoenix mission, when signals from the Phoenix…
Superman may have been able to see through walls with his X-ray vision, but European scientists have developed…
Imagine a planet with two drains, one in the north and the other in the south. Each drain…
Following its wonderfully successful missions to Mars, Venus and Titan, Europe is going to explore Mercury, the closest…
An old friend returned home for a flying visit on 13 November. 44 months after its launch from…
In the summer of 2008, two of the most sensitive space observatories ever launched will lift off from…
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Mars is often regarded as an arid world covered by deserts. However, like Earth, the Red Planet has…
Are there any small, Earthlike planets orbiting distant stars? What is it like inside giant and dwarf stars?…
Every now and again our Milky Way galaxy is lit up by a huge explosion. Known as a…
Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the largest and most fascinating satellites in the Solar System. Unfortunately, its…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to land on an alien world more than 1.2…
Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is about to receive its first European visitor. On 11 April,…
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, so it is always fairly close to the Sun in…
Neptune was discovered in 1846 by Johann Galle, an astronomer at the Berlin Observatory. Galle knew where to…
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by 24 year-old Clyde Tombaugh, who was using a special machine to compare…
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun. It is not very easy to observe since it is…
Modern telescopes have revealed hundreds of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, in a region known as…
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. Uranus lies…
Beyond the asteroid belt is Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun. Everything about Jupiter is large. It…
All of the planets travel around the Sun in a counter-clockwise direction – as seen from above Earth’s…
The Solar System is made up of the Sun and all of the smaller objects that move around…
On 14 January 2005 ESA’s Huygens probe made an historic landing on the surface of Saturn’s giant satellite,…
The surface of Mars is now as dry as a desert, but new results from ESA’s Mars Express…
ESA’s Venus Express mission will be the first spacecraft in more than 10 years to visit our nearest…
The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it on its…
Due for launch on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on 9 November, Venus Express will be the first…
