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Gaia releases new Milky Way maps
Banks, Michael
The third data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission is one of the richest sets of published astronomical information, as Michael Banks finds out.
Mission to Mars searches for life
Banks, Michael
A joint European and Russian probe to study the atmosphere and surface of Mars successfully launched last month from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos - also includes the entry, descent and landing demonstrator module (…
Rosetta team bags Physics World award
Johnston, Hamish
The Physics World 2014 Breakthrough of the Year has been awarded to the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission for being the first to land a spacecraft on a comet.
Philae mission set for reboot
Banks, Michael
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) are hoping that the Philae lander, which successfully landed on a comet last year, will re-establish contact soon as it travels closer to the Sun.
Philae set for science after waking up from hibernation
Banks, Michael
The European Space Agency's Philae lander has woken up following seven months in hibernation mode.
Rendezvous with a comet
Taylor, Matt
After making a successful rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko earlier this year, Europe's Rosetta craft is now riding alongside this celestial body and next month is set to land a probe on its surface. Matt Taylor describes the excitement of this unique project and the scientific insights that it hopes to achieve.
Philae probe makes history as it lands on a comet
Commissariat, Tushna
Space scientists celebrated last month after the European Space Agency (ESA) landed a probe on a comet for the first time.
Rosetta rendezvous with comet following 10-year chase
Commissariat, Tushna
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet.
India sets its sights on the red planet
Bagla, Pallava
Four years after India's maiden mission to the Moon - Chandrayaan-1 - the country has announced its first mission to Mars.
Another giant leap for mankind
Spudis, Paul D.
Three spacecraft are currently orbiting the Moon, Chang'e-1 from China, Kaguya from Japan and Chandrayaan-1 from India. The American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will join them later this year. Russia is developing lunar rover hardware, for itself and for other countries. In Europe, both Germany and the UK are contemplating their own lunar mission…