Ulysses probe ends 18-year study of heliosphere

The U.S. and European spacecraft Ulysses has ended its more than 18-year mission to explore and research the region of space above the poles of the sun.

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Huge ice chunks break away from Antarctic shelf

Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island — was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks.

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Ice shelf about to break away from Antarctic coast

A massive ice shelf anchored to the Antarctic coast by a narrow and quickly deteriorating ice bridge could break away soon, the European Space Agency warned Friday.

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Russian rocket launches European satellite

A European Space Agency research satellite is on its way into orbit after being launched aboard a Russian rocket.

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European Space Agency hopes to clean up space junk

Wary of the multitude of satellites in earth's orbit, the European Space Agency has begun a program to monitor space debris and set up uniform standards to prevent future collisions far above the planet, an official said Monday.

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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops

The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.

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Unique Solar Probe Freezing to Death

The Ulysses solar probe, after 17 years of studying the sun and solar system, is about to die by freezing to death, NASA and the European Space Agency said Friday.

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Arctic Ice Melt Opens Northwest Passage

Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.

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Europe Space Probe Reframes Mars 'Face'

For decades, photos of a huge, face-shaped rock formation on Mars sparked thoughts of intelligent life — or even a statue of Elvis on the Red Planet. But now the European Space Agency has unmasked the face — as not really a face at all.

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European Space Agency Finishes Space Lab

The European Space Agency on Tuesday completed construction of the Columbus laboratory, which will allow researchers to conduct a wide range of experiments on the International Space Station.

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This dazzling picture of our planet, all dark but the cerulean sliver of the South Pole, was a long time coming. More Articles

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IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world in our solar system.

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BANGALORE: Chandrayaan-I may have met a premature death, but its mission remains more or less accomplished . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said

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European scientists will attempt their most audacious space launch yet when they blast a pair of giant satellites – Herschel and Planck – into orbit on the same rocket on Thursday.

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Six volunteers from Russia, France and Germany have been locked into a capsule to simulate the conditions of a manned flight to the planet lasting two years.

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What is the chance that alien life exists? Nasa's latest mission - the Kepler Space Telescope due to launch on Friday night to survey the heavens for Earth-like planets - could soon give us an answer.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.

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A reusable spaceplane that can take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over twelve tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway could be less than a decade away thanks to a one million euro award by the European Space Agency (ESA).

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The collision between a US and Russian satellite in space highlights the growing importance of monitoring objects in orbit. It also shows that there are still major capability gaps in current systems set up for this task.

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A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. The blueish-green glow was found over the ringed planet's north polar region just like Earth's northern lights.

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The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is mounted on Mars Express, ESA's deep-space probe now orbiting the Red Planet. It originally provided simple, low-tech images of Beagle lander separation, and is now back in action as the 'Mars Webcam'.

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Data obtained from the ESA/NASA spacecraft SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has shown that powerful quakes ripple around the Sun as a result of powerful solar flares that explode above its surface. According to a report from ESA (European Space Agency), these observatio …

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"Scientists with the European Space Agency (Esa) say the day when flowers bloom on the Moon has come closer. "An Esa-linked team has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food."

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What's behind the vortex on Venus? Astronomers have been studying the atmospheric swirl at the Venusian south pole for more than three decades, and the latest crop of imagery from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter documents quick changes in what appears to be the  …

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The European Commission has put forward a new tendering process for the stalled Galileo satellite-navigation project. No one company will be allowed to win more than two of the six segments of work offered to build the system.

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The European Space Agency (Esa) has drawn up its shortlist of the best places to look for life on Mars. Esa will launch a mission called ExoMars in 2013 in which a robot rover will search the Martian surface for evidence of past or present life.

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The UK's decision to shun human spaceflight was a mistake that needs to be changed, says Europe's International Space Station programme chief.

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Europe is on the cusp of a renaissance in space, with its first permanently tended orbital laboratory, a cargo transporter and other gear about to make their debuts.

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Environmentalists fear increased maritime traffic and efforts to tap natural resources in the area could one day lead to oil spills and harm regional wildlife.

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Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread presence in our solar system of basic chemicals necessary for life.

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NASA has unveiled the new telescope that will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in Washington D.C. called the James Webb Space Telescope [JWST]. Currently, NASA has a life-sized model on display to the public which is as tall as a two story house and weighs several tons.

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To summarise: Should we send people into space? Yes... * It is the ultimate adventure to 'boldly go' where no man has gone before * Robots, despite all their apparent sophistication, will never be as adept in space as humans

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Just remember to keep it in metric, guys. The European and US space agencies are moving ahead on their next major missions to explore the Solar System.

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A European comet-chasing spacecraft is set for a nail-biting close encounter this weekend with Mars.

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