Science: Europe Probe Lands on Mars
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The Smart 1 lunar probe has entered into orbit around the Moon, the first European mission to do so. On Monday, Smart 1 began firing its ion engine to bring it into lunar orbit.
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People could land on Mars in the next 20 to 30 years provided scientists can find water on the red planet, the head of NASA's surface exploration mission said on Wednesday.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon, SMART-1, has been placed in orbit around the moon. European Space Agency (ESA) science director David Southwood says the moon&#39;s gravity captured the probe Monday.
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A European space probe has landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, a space official said Friday, buoying hopes that the mission would produce data that could shed light on the origins of life on Earth.
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The ExoMars project to land a European robot rover on the Red Planet moves forward with an enhanced design.
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Engineers test an airbag system that could be used to cushion a European rover's landing on Mars.
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Europe's Rosetta probe will try to establish this weekend whether there is a thin ring of debris around the planet Mars.
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Summary - (Dec 23, 2004) Photographs taken by the European Space Agency&#39;s Mars Express spacecraft seem to indicate that there still could be active volcanism on the Red Planet.
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The European Space Agency's  Rosetta probe swooped around the back of Mars early on Sunday,  completing a key maneuver in its 10-year mission to meet a  distant comet.
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More than 30 years ago, when NASAâs two Viking landers looked for signs of life on Mars, the results were ambiguous.
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The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to make a pretend trip to Mars.
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The European Space Agency(ESA) says it has found concentrations of water vapour and the gas methane in the same places on Mars, which strengthen speculation that the Red Planet could be a haven for microbial life.
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The British team that built the space probe for Europe's doomed mission to Mars conceded Tuesday that any future ventures to the Red Planet should have better funding and detection systems for potential problems.
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Europe&#39;s SMART-1 robotic probe has arrived after taking a long and spiraling road to reach its lunar destination. Launched by an Ariane 5 booster in late September 2003, the
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The Mars rover Opportunity has discovered what scientists said was the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet.
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A European spacecraft has started a journey into the unknown as scientists prepare to land on Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan. The Huygens probe was expected to separate from its mothership, Cassini, at about
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The launch of the Columbus science laboratory marks a key moment in space exploration for Europe.