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On 4 July, a 370 kg copper probe from NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft will crash into the icy…
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Austria and Switzerland came out on top when the winners of the international ‘Rosetta Up Close’ photo contest…
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European scientists want to send a rover to search for signs of life on Mars. That was the…
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It’s not every day that a 2000-year-old story is linked to an expedition into space. However, on 15…
Spring gets off to an unseasonal start across Europe: this Envisat image from last week shows the continent…
Europe has reached the Moon, and ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft is beginning to send back spectacular images of Earth’s…
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At the bottom of the world, an enormous, bottle-shaped iceberg has been threatening to demolish everything in its…
Among the many scientific achievements of Huygens was the first ever recording of sounds sent back from another…
History was made earlier today when ESA’s Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Signals received…
A 15-year-old from North Carolina has won the grand prize in The Planetary Society’s international art contest, “Imagining…
450 years ago, a Dutch astronomer named Christiaan Huygens discovered a large moon orbiting Saturn. It was eventually…
