European probe aims for Mercury
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The European Space Agency signs the industrial contract to build a spacecraft to send to the planet Mercury in 2013.
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The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini Huygens mission to Saturn, which has already delivered stunning images and data of the ringed planet following insertion into the Saturnian system on 1st July this year, is poised to enter a crucial stage in its voyage of
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The Huygens spacecraft is about to begin the final leg of its journey to Saturn&#39;s enigmatic moon Titan. The US-European probe will separate from its &quot;mothership&quot; Cassini on 25 December and coast
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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European spaceflight controllers are now making their final communications with the Huygens probe, soon to be deployed on the last leg of its journey to Titan.
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European Space Agency's Smart 1 probe is set to enter into orbit around the Moon on Monday.
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The Green Bank Telescope will be used to study the winds of Saturn's largest moon as the European Space Agency's Huygens spacecraft plunges into Titan's atmosphere later this month.
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Finally, it was Europe's turn to take a giant leap into an unexplored world. After decades of running third in space headlines behind the U.S. and Soviet-Russian programs, the 15-country ESA last week captured center stage with the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after a seven-year voyage.
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Europe&#39;s unmanned SMART-1 probe established itself in orbit around the moon today after being captured by the moon&#39;s gravitational pull.
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NASAâs Messenger spacecraft has captured a new view of the planet Mercury.
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More than 30 years after the last Apollo mission, European scientists have made it to the moon. Their experimental Smart-1 probe, powered by a revolutionary Star Trek-style thruster, has entered into orbit around the lunar surface.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 25 -- More than 750 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was released from NASA's Cassini orbiter Christmas Eve and placed on a collision course with Titan, one of Saturn's many moons.
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The European-made space probe Huygens headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, the only celestial body of the Solar system with an atmosphere resembling that of Earth, after successfully separating from the US spacecraft Cassini.
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The SMART-1 probe has entered its lunar orbit, and the history books as the first European mission to have done so. Professor David Southwood, director of science for the European Space Agency (ESA), said: &quot;Europe
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NASA's MESSENGER probe returns the first images ever seen of the surface of Mercury from just 124 miles away.
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Scientists are eagerly awaiting new images and observations Monday when a NASA spacecraft flies over Mercury in the first visit in almost 33 years to the mysterious small planet.
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ESA and NASA are mounting a joint campaign to observe Jupiter over the next few weeks with two different spacecraft.