Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 19:25
Rosetta, the comet-chasing space probe launched by the European Space Agency a decade ago, has woken up from a 31-month long hibernation.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 06:50
The mission is different from NASA`s Deep Impact, a spacecraft that fired a projectile into a comet in 2005 so scientists could study the resulting plume of matter.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 23:58
A probe from one of the most ambitious missions in the history of space will be roused from nearly three years of hibernation to continue its mission of chasing a comet.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 23:09
If Europe`s comet-chasing quest goes well, Rosetta, Philae and even the tongue-twisting Churyumov-Gerasimenko may become household names by the end of the year.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 00:57
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a solar twin 2500 light-years away, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 15:40
Researchers have developed a climbing robot that has dry but sticky gecko-like feet and can crawl around an orbiting spacecraft to maintain and repair it.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 18:26
Europe`s billion-star hunting telescope has successfully entered its operational orbit to gather data for the most accurate 3D map yet of our Milky Way galaxy, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 14:30
ESA cut potatoes into thin sticks and then deep fried them in extra-virgin olive oil, one side at a time, in a spinning centrifuge - creating conditions of up to nine times Earth`s gravity.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 23:56
A wall-crawling robot inspired by the gecko has taken a small but important step towards a future in space, scientists said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 15:26
European Space Agency`s comet-chasing mission Rosetta is going to wake up in 100 days` time from deep-space slumber to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decade.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 12:44
European Space Agency`s Mars Express will be making its closest flyby yet of the Red Planet `s largest moon Phobos on December 29, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface.
Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 09:38
European Space Agency on Thursday launched its Gaia mission which will provide a three-dimensional picture of the Milky Way galaxy, measuring appropriate positions and distances of more than a billion stars.
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