Europeans to send another Beagle to Mars
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London - The British team behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 probe to Mars, which vanished without trace in December 2003 while attempting to land on the Red Planet, unveiled plans on Wednesday for a possible successor mission.
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Methane and water vapour are concentrated in the same regions of the Martian atmosphere, say scientists studying data from Europe&#39;s Mars Express orbiter.
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Scientists are selecting subjects to be locked in a self-sufficient capsule to test plans for a trip to Mars.
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A microbe from the Dead Sea may hold the key to protecting astronauts from one of the greatest threats they would face during a mission to Mars: space radiation.
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Images from a European space probe reveal recent glacial deposits and lava flows on Mars that suggest the red planet is more active than many scientists had thought.
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The European Space Agency says data collected by its probe, Mars Express, has provided new evidence in the search for life on Mars.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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The loss of Britain&#39;s Beagle 2 project can be traced to the Government wanting a Mars lander &quot;on the cheap&quot;, and tensions with the European Space Agency, MPs said yesterday.
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European Space Agency -- ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Mars Express has relayed pictures from one of NASA's Mars rovers for the first time, as part of a set of interplanetary networking demonstrations.     The demonstrations pave the way for future Mars missions to draw on joint interplanetary networking capabilities...
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Paris - The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday that it had found concentrations of water vapour and the gas methane in the same places on Mars, a finding which strengthens speculation that the Red Planet could be a haven for microbial life.
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By Rachel Shields Are you European or Canadian, aged between 25 and 50, in good health and ready for a unique challenge? The European Space Agency is offering 12 volunteers the most unusual and exotic opportunity of a lifetime: an 18-month simulated mission to Mars.
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The team behind the Beagle 2 mission to Mars has unveiled its design for the successor to the British spacecraft. At a London meeting, Colin Pillinger, lead scientist on the previous venture
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Parallel to Orion Plans are underway to build a European alternative to the US's shuttle replacement Orion.â¦
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The United States must  collaborate with other countries to achieve its goal of putting  humans on Mars or it may fall short of its aims, scientists and  former space officials said on Thursday.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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The European Space Agency will put six volunteers in an isolation tank for 17 months to simulate a Mars mission.
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It was supposed to look for signs of life on Mars. Then it stopped showing signs of life itself. Built on a &quot;shoestring&quot; budget of pounds 45m, space probe Beagle 2 was designed to put Britain at the centre of the international space programme.