Joint ESA/NASA team wins international award

Mars Sample Return: The next step in exploring the Red Planet
(European Space Agency) ESA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars...

Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth
(European Space Agency) The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star...

SOHO discovers its 1,500th comet
(European Space Agency) The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1,500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet...

Record boost for ATV to raise ISS orbit
(European Space Agency) For the second time since April, ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used to raise the orbit of the International Space Station...

Space radar to improve miners' safety
(European Space Agency) Advanced ground penetration radar, originally developed to investigate the soil structure on the moon and other planets on...