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…
Help Paxi land on different planets and celestial bodies.
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…
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 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10…
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will make an amazing landing on the Red Planet on 6 August! MSL…
Earth is often known as the blue planet, because it is the only world in our Solar System…
New images from Mars Express show a mountain range we haven’t seen before. The mountains are in an…
If you didn’t manage to see any shooting stars this summer don’t worry, here’s your chance to see…
Moons are natural objects that orbit planets. Scientists usually refer to them as planetary satellites (human-made satellites are…
What would happen if an aspiring villain, a scientist who’s a little too old and deaf, and a…
More than 50 years after the Space Age began, only two countries have soft-landed spacecraft on the Moon…
The Moon is our nearest neighbour in space – a ‘mere’ 384,000 km away. Nine manned missions and…
Is there life on Mars? Certainly, no one expects to find intelligent Martians, like those seen in the…
The winners of the competition are: Pasqual Ortega Hernández, Rueben Willis, Savitri Thurairatnam, Beatriz Gómez Sala, Rafael y…
India has reached the Moon! Its Chandrayaan-1 (“Lunar Craft” 1) was captured by the Moon’s gravity on 8…
In 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars. They were named…
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…
