Culture news Darth Vader's lightsaber breaks Star Wars auction record by selling for nearly €4.5 million
Sci-Tech NASA prepares humanoid robots for trip to Mars Humanoid Robots to pioneer Mars colonisation? 30 May 2016
No Comment A 360° video of Mars shows the red planet like never before NASA has released a new video that lets viewers share the view from the Mars Curiosity Rover of the bleak Naukluft Plateau. The 360-degree video 28 April 2016
Russia ExoMars mission leaves Earth's orbit heading for Mars After a successful launch, the joint European-Russian mission to sniff out signs of life on Mars has left Earth’s orbit and is heading for the Red 14 March 2016
World News Russian-ESA Exomars blasts off to find life on the Red Planet The ExoMars probe has blasted off on Monday (March 14) on board a Russian Proton rocket from Kazakhstan to the red planet. [no comment live] esa</a 14 March 2016
World Methane the key to life for ExoMars 2016 mission Scientists from the European Space Agency and Russia’s Federal Space Agency face a weekend of intense tinkering ahead of Monday’s ExoMars mission 11 March 2016
Kazakhstan Astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after longest US space mission An American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut have returned to Earth after an unprecedented period of almost a year in space for NASA. The time spent 2 March 2016
World News NASA reveals clues to Mars' watery past Scientists at NASA have revealed what they believe stripped Mars of water, turning it into the arid Red Planet. “What happened to the Mars 6 November 2015
World News Is there life on Mars? NASA announces liquid water discovered Under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars. This was the out of this world announcement from NASA following years of 28 September 2015
World News NASA discovers evidence of "liquid briny water" flowing on Mars NASA is set to announce a “major” new discovery on Mars, reported to be liquid water on the red planet. Follow the press conference with euronews. 28 September 2015
Kazakhstan Long mission begins for astronaut and two cosmonauts on ISS It is the start of a long mission in space for a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts. The three men blasted off in a Russian Soyuz rocket from 27 March 2015
United Kingdom The Beagle has landed - Britain's missing spacecraft found on Mars Beagle 2 was part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission 16 January 2015
World News NASA rover detects methane on Mars NASA’s Mars rover has found a type of gas which could suggest past or present life on the Red plant. Methane has been detected which is a chemical 17 December 2014
USA Mars Curiosity rover finds evidence of lake NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has discovered evidence that billions of years ago a lake once filled the 154km wide Gale crater where the rover is 9 December 2014
Next Series New ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet talks survival training, Mars missions and Tweeting from space 21 March 2014