The European Space Agency (ESA) is embarking on a bold new venture that could reshape the way we explore Mars. Dubbed ...

ESA devoted only an hour to the livestream because it did not want to overload the spacecraft’s batteries. Mars Express traveled to the red planet with a lander, dubbed Beagle-2, which lost ...

ESA/Mars Express (OMEGA ... Human crews will need to access water for a long-term Mars mission, and one way to do that is to bake aqueous minerals to extract the water they contain.

I'm excited to see Mars as it is now – as close to a martian 'now' as we can possibly get!" James Godfrey, the spacecraft operations manager at the ESA's mission control center, said in a statement.

An illustration of the Mars Express spacecraft which launched in 2003. Illustration: ESA The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars ...

ESA said in March that it was suspending cooperation with Russia's Roscosmos space agency on their joint ExoMars rover mission to search for signs of life on the surface of Mars in the wake of the ...

However, excitement and joy reigned supreme when the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft closely encountered the Red Planet’s larger moon. The flyby in September allowed the ...

On March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ ...

ESA has successfully tested out a remarkable ... The test rover's drilling exercises are one important step toward preparing the mission to go to Mars. It gives the rover team the opportunity ...

Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where ...