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What's on the agenda for space in 2017?

Twenty seventeen will mark the launch of the space telescope, CHEOPS by the European space agency ESA.

02/01/2017

Guatemala

Central American sky lit up by spectacular meteor burst

People come out onto the streets in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador to watch giant fireball in the sky.

28/12/2016

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Students and NASA design suit for Mars

A full-scale, wearable and adjustable model of a space suit designed for the first Mars landing underwent testing on Monday (5 December) at the Rhode Island School of…

07/12/2016

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Can we deflect asteroids?

In the edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of the Côte d’Azur in the south of France on a unique mission to deflect an…

24/11/2016

World News

Europe prepares for supermoon

Clear skies permitting, skywatchers will be in for a rare astronomical treat this evening – a supermoon is set to grace Europe’s skies.

14/11/2016

World News

Moon poised to make nearest pass of earth since 1948

Stargazers are poised to see the moon as it has rarely been seen.

13/11/2016

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Via Lactea project reveals a new view of the Milky Way

Our galaxy as you have never seen it before and a huge amount of important scientific data to better understand its behavior and evolution.

07/11/2016

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Takeaway: the star factory

The Via Lactea project has created the largest database on the Milky Way The data was collected by the Herschel telescope with more than 900 hrs of observations.

07/11/2016

World News

LIVE: what happened to the Mars landing Schiaparelli probe?

Scientists are scrambling to confirm the status of the European lander which was due to have landed on the Red Planet's surface, after contact was lost during its descent.

19/10/2016

World News

Europe and Russia's mission to Mars

The ExoMars mission blasted off seven months ago abord a Russian rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

19/10/2016

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Is there life on Mars? Landing of ExoMars probe today may tell us more

Destination: The Red Planet.

19/10/2016

China

A giant leap forward? China embarks on its longest space mission to date

China's Shenzhou-11 docks at the Tiangong 2 space lab in what could be a giant leap forward for its space programme.

19/10/2016

World News

All you need to know about Europe's new mission to Mars

Mars has long piqued people’s interest – from science fiction tales of Martians to Elon Musk’s goal of one day colonising the planet.

18/10/2016

World News

ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet

ExoMars is a mission of firsts – if all goes to plan then this will be Europe’s first controlled landing on Mars, and this is the first mission of its kind to go directly in search of signs of…

18/10/2016

World News

ExoMars has Red Planet in its sights - within days!

Landing on Mars is notoriously difficult.

14/10/2016

World

Mission accomplished: Rosetta crash crowns ESA's historic achievement

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has come to a close with success after crash landing hits target

30/09/2016

Sci-Tech

'Commencing countdown' astronauts prepare for blast off

French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is going for a swim, but this is one dip with a difference. Pesquet is taking his last training session in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Cente

29/09/2016

World News

Water on Jupiter's moon Europa? But why should I care?

27/09/2016

World News

Microbes and the meaning of life?

Researchers in Japan are hoping microbes from Space could hold the secret to the origins of life on Earth.

21/09/2016

Argentina

'Giant meteorite' unearthed in northern Argentina

An excavating team in Argentina have unearthed a rock weighing over 30 tonnes it is thought could be one of the world’s largest meteorites.

14/09/2016