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.

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

Strange, dark streaks on Martian slopes that once hinted at flowing water are now believed to be dry dust slides, revealed ...

In a perfect and parsimonious world, a single two-stage spacecraft would land on Mars, scoop up soil samples ... built by the ESA, that would bring the tubes home. Not only did that break the ...

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 ...

NASA's mission is to return ... The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose ...

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